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The highly profitable newspaper--which used to print samizdat on smudgy, single-sided pages--symbolizes Poland's transition from Communist repression to consumerist democracy.
That would have been all, folks, were Louis not a complete schmuck who capriciously drains the kingdom's coffers with foreign wars, starves a lot of smudgy faced extras (who hurl rotten fruit at his guards), and falls on whatever beauteous wench strikes his royal fancy.
When I was younger, I would occasionally come across books issued by Progress Publishers, Moscow, and I never failed to be puzzled by the poor quality of the photographic illustrations--even works published in the 1970s featured pasty, smudgy, usually blue-tinted approximations of photos (the translated works, for that matter, were printed in a roman typeface that looked as if it had been purchased before 1917 from a Western dime-novel concern).