Our excursion for central Europe sets off Monday, the day before a runoff election for South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial nominee. We'll get the results while we are in Budapest.
But we will be in the thick of things in Gdansk when Poland holds its runoff election to replace the late President Kaczinski. That comes on the Fourth of July. We'll celebrate America's Independence Day coincident with independent elections in Poland.
It's apt reinforcement of the core of our study tour looking at post-cold war former communist states. Of particular interest to us is the evolved role of the media. The real time Polish elections, as well as those held recently in the Czech Republic, are significant departures from the sham elections I once covered as a correspondent roaming through the old Soviet bloc.
More to come as this three-week educational adventure follows the events leading to the collapse of communism and the progress of the former satellites.
Charles Bierbauer
6/20/10
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