Old-fashioned minibuses and East German-made Trabants now drive once more on the roads of the Polish capital as guides take visitors through the highs and lows of life in the communist-era Polish People's Republic (PRL).
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Tour guide Marek Sidorenko said he wanted to give tourists a flavour of the living conditions created by communism, showing the difficult times but also how people overcame them with "small victories".
Standing outside the towering Palace of Science and Culture, Irish tourist James Curran said the tour had shown why it was necessary to conform under the communist regime, despite it being "a bit ridiculous" to have to do so.
Warsaw also features a number of museums showing off different aspects of society and culture in the PRL.
At the Museum of Life under Communism, visitors can tour reconstructions of communist-era apartments and shops and look at exhibitions of common products available to consumers at the time.
And a museum of neon signage in Warsaw documents the now almost extinct craft of creating the luminous designs.
Museum founder David Hill said that with the passage of time there was an increasing interest in the aesthetic of communist-era designs as well as people's daily lives.
He added that this wasn't just evident in Poland but also in many other countries that were formerly cut off from the West.
Tomasz Szczęsny, the co-founder of an exhibition of cars from the USSR and other countries then in the Warsaw Pact, said many items from the time of the PRL had been destroyed because of their associations with a painful past.
But he said despite Poland's alignment with the West following the fall of communism there were increasing moves to preserve what was left to remember how life in the PRL looked.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters