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Scars of Communism on Polish culture. [55]
His point on their inability to "brainstorm" may be relevant, Polish insane drivers could be curtailed with a little community action,especially in relation to those focking bus drivers, driving in the imaginary lane and 20 passengers sitting in the back like passive zombies. Passengers of the world unite.
However, I think a lot of what goes on in Poland is not only the authoritarian personality that spawned from Stalinism but also the persistence of the grey.
From the beginning in 1989 Poland was thrown into the free-market by its fanatical advocates, who in turn raped the country of its infrastructure (at the time the fastest privatization in world history) and then left the country to implode, and it did. God's Playground forever. Soviet gun to the head and then Neo-Liberal gun to the head,not exactly an ideal situation for Polish creative thinking;the Poles are not to blame for the damages sprayed on the them from imperialism and its many guises. Poland basically got re-castrated by the Chicago boys and the damage done will be hard to undo(maybe impossible,its hard to impregnate without the family jewels)
Off course the Taliban church in Poland has helped maintain the soviet style surveillance, but hopefully the light of day will eventually shine them away.
Its not just the scars of communism but also the scars of Thatcher/Reagan.