Riet goes to Warsaw

Touristy Riet: Holy shit! Look at all these museums! The Chopin Museum, the Museum of Caricature and Cartoon, the National Museum..we have to at least visit them.

Hungry Riet: I haven't eaten since 8 this morning. Fuck you guys.

History Major Riet: One, it's already 4 pm. Two, we're going to the Warsaw Uprising Museum.

Touristy Riet: Come on! You said you wanted to use your time efficiently and see as much as possible. The Uprising is way out of the way. Let's just go here. It's closer.

History Major Riet: NO. You will learn what the combined armies of Germany and the USSR did to this city. Have you ever wondered why all the buildings are less than 65 years old?

Hungry Riet: I SMELL DÖNER KEBAB!

Touristy Riet: But...but there will be anti-nazi cartoons! You like that. And Punch! Don't forget Punch! Come on!

I pass a plaque.

(Plaque: on this spot, the Nazis executed 120 people.)

Warsaw is positively riddled with these memorials. I'm talking literally every street corner. It's s huge city.

History Major Riet: See? Why are you here? You are here to remember.

Tourist Riet: Yeah, death, I know. Blah, blah, poor Poland, blah.

(I pass an inscription in the sidewalk tracing the Warsaw Ghetto wall)

History Major Riet: Look. Look at that. There is NOTHING left. Warsaw was literally a pile of burning rubble before they built these shitty apartment blocks. And do you know why? Because the Soviets SAT THERE and let it happen. We're going to the Uprising Museum.

Hungry Riet: OH GOD IS THAT BORSCHT? IT IS OH GOD

Tourist Riet: You're going to a concentration camp tomorrow. Isn't that enough?

History Major Riet: Look, we went on this goddamn trip to-

This is ill-concealed neo-Nazi graffiti.  It also riddles the city. This picture was taken smack in the middle of the former Warsaw Ghetto. I would have taken more pictures of such things had I not been horrified to stop and snap a photo in front of other people. 

Touristy Riet: …

Hungry Riet: ...

History Major Riet: Let's go.

Hungry Riet: Can we go to the Umschlagplatz afterward?

Touristy Riet: Yes, do that. And get a rock. You're going to carry it to Treblinka.

History Major Riet: I told y-

Touristy Riet: Shut up.