Russia bans board game about shopping in a communist country

[Larry1]

A board game has been invented  in Poland and the apparatchiks in Moscow do not like it one little bit.

The board game Kolejka (a.k.a. Queue) tells a story of everyday life in Poland at the tail-end of the Communist era. The players' task appears to be simple: They have to send their family members out to various stores on the game board to buy all the items on their shopping list. The problem is, however, that the shelves in the five neighborhood stores are empty.

The players line up their pawns in front of the shops without knowing which shop will have a delivery. Tension mounts as the product delivery cards are uncovered and it turns out that there will be enough product cards only for the lucky few standing closest to the door of a store.

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85325/kolejka

You may read a fuller explanation of the game at the link above.

Russia banned the game because it considers it excessively critical of the soviet system:

Russia’s consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor warned that the game is perceived as “anti-Russian” and excessively critical of the Soviet system. Russian authorities asked Trefl, the company who bought the game’s license from IPN, to either remove the direct historical references from it or risk getting the product banned.

“IPN did not agree to the implementation of these changes and that is why Kolejka is no longer in Russian shops,” a statement by IPN reads.

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-bans-polands-communist-monopoly-being-anti-russian-438972?rx=us

The current Russian regime increasingly protects the reputation of Communism, a vile, evil, and monumentally stupid system that was, happily, overthrown.

[Anathema]

I really like Poland.

[Shadow]

The current Russian regime increasingly protects the reputation of Communism, a vile, evil, and monumentally stupid system that was, happily, overthrown.

Wrong. Communism was never reached. The socialism is now building in the US.

[GuppyCaptain]

Unbelievable. The fact that they banned it says volumes about the mentality in the Kremlin and what direction they'd take the country if left totally unchallenged. I guess they don't want the younger generation (who'd be the more likely ones to start an uprising/revolution) from being educated on the way it was back then.

It's downright scary actually. Oh, and I like Poland, too. 

[Muzh]

Wrong. Communism was never reached.

Shadow, many will repeat the propaganda from the 50s and 60s. It is ingrained in our collective.


You have no clue the response I've received here (in the US) when I said the same.

The socialism is now building in the US.

Anyone with a Social Security card in the US is a card carrying socialist. But, duh! Just because they don't understand it doesn't mean it is not a correct statement.