Living in the era of socialism

Well, if you have never lived in a communist country, you have no idea, how much you have lost...in a sense, of course. It may sound like a nonsense, though it shouldn't!
Amelia was growing up very quickly, thanks to her parents' care, which protected the kid from the impact of evil...evil existing in human minds, hearts or souls. Souls imprisoned in bodies, as Platon used to say. Souls imprisoned in bodies of sinners, as St. Augustine would say. Souls imprisoned in human limits, as I dare to say...
But coming back to Amelia and her mum (Elizabeth) and dad (Eddie), I wanna explain that during the reign of Edward Gierek (in the 70ies) , all of them lived quite a good life. What do I mean by 'a good life' in Poland? I mean good salaries of Amelia's parents (they didn't belong to the Communist Party-they weren't the collaborators, but they had good positions; Liz was a manager and her husband was a vice-president of a big company). Thanks to their hard work, they enabled Amelia to travel abroad to the USSR - ( now Russia, Georgia), East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary and to spend all her vacations in an attractive way - at camps (at the Baltic Sea, in the Polish mountains). Moreover, Amelia could get from time to time jeans or jackets bought by her parents in the special shops called PEWEX (where you could buy things from the USA, Japan, other western countries - but you had to pay in dollars or in special banknotes called "bony"). Those shops weren't for everybody, as it wasn't that easy to have dollars from a legal source in Poland at that time.
Reading about Amelia's life, you can come to a conclusion, that living in the Republic of Poland at those times was pretty simple. Unfortunately, it was like that only for some groups of citizens, but not for the whole society. People, in general, lived a quiet life, had their homes, had their jobs and knew nothing about such phenomena as homelessness or unemployment. But they were not happy, as they were missing freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of press etc. They didn't have the natural feeling of living in a free, democratic state. They lived in the state, which gave the citizens nearly everything except for human rights. It wasn't that bad as in the USSR or China, of course. But Poland wasn't the ideal place to live.
Certainly, Amelia did know something about it, but as a kid she thought much more about school, love and travelling than politics.Foreign affairs, these were the problems important for a teenager like her...