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In discussions concerning integration with the European Union and its social consequences special attention ought to be given to the Polish countryside and its inhabitants, where the process of preparations for accession and the first few months of the Union's membership produced the most spectacular results. Until the day of the referendum the Polish rural community was the greatest enemy of the...