Nowa Huta, established in 1949 near the city of Krakow, was designed as a vast center of heavy industry aimed at rectifying the class imbalance prevalent in Krakow’s middle-class society, which exhibited significant resistance to the communist regime. The authorities sought to establish Nowa Huta as a self-sufficient satellite town that was intended to be superior to its neighbor to attract residents from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Initially, the population of Nowa Huta was composed of workers who had settled in the area voluntarily or through coercion to work in the newly constructed steelworks. The communist government considered it a manifestation of a “homogenous social class” and a “fortress of the proletariat.” The residents of the established Krakow community held a profound antipathy towards the inhabitants of the emerging district, and this negative sentiment endured even following the downfall of the communist regime. Presently acknowledged as a constituent part of Krakow, Nowa Huta underwent a prolonged period of disregard, characterized by an absence of cultural events.