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People's Republic of Poland
The People's Republic of Poland was the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1990. Although the Soviet Union took control of the country immediately after the liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944, the name of the state was not changed until eight years later...
. Polish communist government, desperate for hard foreign currency, used to mandate that the Polish citizens were to exchange foreign currency they had into the notes (bony) issued by the Bank Pekao
Bank Pekao
Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spółka Akcyjna, commonly using the shorter name Bank Pekao S.A., is a universal bank with its headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Italian bank UniCredit owns 59% of the company....
. Those notes were accepted in special shops in Poland (Pewex
Pewex
Pewex was a chain of hard currency shops in communist Poland...
, Baltona
Baltona
Baltona is an enterprise created in 1946 in Poland. Nationalized and subordinated to Polish communist Ministry of Foreign Trade in 1950, it was tasked with resupplying Polish ships, planes, diplomatic posts, airports, seaports, border crossings, and even scientific expeditions...
) where one could buy restricted, imported goods.