Nineteen-nineties
The nineteen-nineties in Poland were a crash course in Stoicism — no textbook, but plenty of inflation. Certainties collapsed, queues vanished along with the state-owned shops, and peace of mind turned out to be the only currency that could not be devalued.
Street photo, Warsaw, 90', aut.MISBetley, CC-BY-NC
That decade altered everything at once and only those who distinguished what depended on them from what depended on the dollar exchange rate managed to preserve something resembling dignity.