And all this is due to the dwarves’ possiers, which have become an unusual tourist attraction. As befits dwarfs are only 30 cm high, have their names and hide in different parts of the city. Everyone is eager to photograph them, creating their collections. There are 400 of them in total, and it takes a few days to find them all. It is impossible to get bored with such a mission in Wroclaw. Unfortunately, not all dwarfs I will be available. Many of them are located at sites that are excluded from public visits. Many of them were stolen, perhaps by those who were given a dwarf instead of advice and help.

The fashion for dwarfs in Wroclaw has become so strong that some companies are trying to have their own dwarf, so did one of the largest courier companies, which ordered a dwarf carrying a package. He was given the name Deliverius.

The first statues appeared in 2005, there were only five of them. The artist Tomasz Mroczek made them according to his own idea at the request of the Promotion Office of the City of Wroclaw. But the history of the dwarfs goes back much further and has nothing to do with a tourist attraction.

During the martial law in Poland in 1981, a Wrocław political activist, Waldemar Frydrych, suggested that each anti-government slogan should include the image of a dwarf. The dwarf is a well-established symbol of the anarchist movement Provosi (Netherlands 1965). The party of dwarfs (1970), established by Dutch activists, was to be a provocation of the absurdity of electoral democracy, in which in the government structures there were individuals or groups focused solely on private and business goals distant from social needs. Because everyone has the right to rule. Failure to verify candidates is often a political catastrophe, and voters always act as they are told, most of them are not politically mature. In the United States, the well-known journalist Michael Moore went so far as to provoke a campaign for election to the Senate ornamental plant (criticism of election performances). Voters discouraged by politics liked the idea so much that the plant had more electoral support than serious candidates. This situation has led to a change in electoral law in the US although it is still a theatre of actors.

The same provocation was supposed to be the images of dwarfs on Polish streets in 1981, it was the so-called orange alterntywa (orange is the color of the Netherlands). The dwarfs were supposed to remind us that the current authorities are absolutely politically irresponsible people. Looking at today’s incompetent government in Poland, we can see that not much has changed, and the popularity of dwarfs is still very strong and not only as a tourist attraction. (Brux)

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