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not in 1993 they weren't. there were lots of money changers. all wore black leather jackets, all were surly
There's a halfway decent Polish movie about slightly earlier days which deals with money changers. It is called "Sztos" I believe and stars Pazura and Nowicki ( the latter, in my humble opinion, would have made a career both in UK and US had he been educated either in Britain or the States ). It has its moments, although I don't know if You can get a decent translation.
Back in the 1980's I rarely dealt with these guys because ( that's not said in the film I mentioned ) they all worked as informants for the infamous Polish political police. I think getting this job was actually one of the perks that came along with being an informant. But when we really had to we had these 2 semi-trustworthy guys ( they worked as a duo ) in Warsaw we dealt with. One of them is obscenely rich right now, no longer needs to work. The other one is... well, dead, and some people that knew him from back in the day said his death was mafia-related.
when I posted my earlier post about female university students putting out for a dollar in the 1980s, I expected to get absolutely chastised by dozens of readers accusing me of spouting nonsense. I am not an Arab gentleman, neither was I studying in Poland in the 1980s so I have to rely on my friend telling me the truth, having said that he was not the sort to bu11sh1t.
I conducted business in Poland in the 1980's through a "firma polonijna" and I've gotten **** on this site for describing some of the stuff Polish women would do in the 1980's.
Let's just say that I'm not in the least surprised by what You wrote. We had a saying in our little expat group in Warsaw that there had to be something wrong with a foreigner who didn't get laid in Poland, Polish women were basically throwing themselves at foreign guys and the almighty Dollar indeed often had a lot to do with it.
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