No but the point is that Poland has been held back.
I agree 100% - but the problem under communism was not that people didn`t had money - cose under communism all people had money - and the difference in wealth between the government/pary members and the rest was minimal - the problem was the availability of products... Just imagine - you have the money, but you can choose to buy only 3-4 kind of cars for it or 10-20 sets of furniture ..3 kinds of chocolate or 1 kind of toilet paper.. no to mention the fact that i.e. during the 80s people had to wait for a coupple of h to buy a toilet paper.
During communism we had also a private sector where there were various entrepenours who were more wealthy than the rest of the people.
So it`s not that simple as you may think.
If Poland had not have suffered Stalin and the USSR then Poland would now be at least 20 years ahead of where it is now.
Yep - when it comes to GDP per capita we`re 18 years behind the UK.
Unemployment is high, 22% i believe.
It`s 15,2% - but about 1/3 of those people who are registered as unemploued has work - they only don`t want to pay the proper taxes.
The Irish economy is an inspiration for us - and as a matter of fact I find it should be an inspiration for the whole Europe, instead of the Scandinavian model. Your country had shown that a country that once had been poor had achived very much thru very hard work, but you have to see that in many ways we are similar, yet we`re not the same.