Just like in other countries lovers in Poland send hearts, greeting cards and give each other small gifts.
On February 14, couples spend a pleasant evening in the cinema or a café. But you have to be careful, because on this special night finding a free table or buying a cinema ticket in Poznań is practically impossible. There are huge traffic jams on the roads going to the cinemas that are non-existent on any other day.
But before St. Valentine came to us with his cards we had our own Polish holiday that was equally pleasant, especially for women. But the vicious claim that on this day, men had another occasion to celebrate. Women's Day, as this is what we are talking about, falls on March 8. For years it was celebrated in grand style. there were greetings, gifts (tights, soap or coffee) given out in the working places and an obligatory single carnation for which every female employee had to sign a receipt. Such gifts in the times of general deficit were very useful.
The women's holiday celebrations at the central level disappeared in 1993, when they were finally cancelled by Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of the free Poland.
Nowadays some men try to trick themselves out of giving the symbolic flower and explain that it was a holiday created by the communists. They could not be more wrong. For the first time Women's Day was celebrated in the land of purest capitalism, the United States of America. The female Americans started to celebrate before the First World War in 1909. Today March 8 is most willingly celebrated by kindergarten children who prepare beautiful cards for their teachers and mothers. On this day no woman will certainly decline a flower or a small gift. After all, such gestures are always nice regardless of the occasion.