The table game ‘Queue’ (‘Kolejka’) shows the realities of life in communist-controlled Poland in the 80s. Its story is based on difficulties the nation faced trying to find and buy basic consumer goods in shops.
The Russian version of the Polish game was released appeared in November, 2015. It was adapted for the Russian market.
In February 2016, the Russian distributor brought to the notice of Trefl, the game’s maker, that Queue is considered to be anti-Soviet in Russia, the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (ISC), which actually developed the game, said on Facebook. According to the Institute, Rospotrebnadzor, a state-run consumer agency, claims it received a lot of complaints about the game from Russians.
The complainers are reported to be outraged about the way the game describes the Soviet era and its statement that ‘the Soviet Union violated another country’s regime, its citizens were forced to live under the conditions of the communist system’.
Rospotrebnadzor demanded to make changes to the game saying otherwise it would ban the distributor cooperating with its creator from selling other goods in Russia.
As the Polish side failed to meet the requirement, one cannot buy Queue in Russian stores anymore.
