Eastern bloc tourism experiment too successful archive, 21 December 1972
Briefly

This was the week when thousands of Poles had been hoping to do their Christmas shopping for the first time in the better-stocked shops of East Berlin.But it was not to be.Eleven months after the start of a unique scheme whereby two communist states in eastern Europe  Poland and the German Democratic Republic  dropped their customs barriers for individual tourists, the experiment has been shelved.
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