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The antipathy towards the Germans is obvious, whether deserved or not.
Are Poles workaholics?
The antipathy towards the Germans is obvious, whether deserved or not.
This antipathy I can understand.
Also compounded by a degree of jealousy, whether admitted or not!
Also compounded by a degree of jealousy, whether admitted or not!
The Polish economy is growing rapidly, but the German economy is still 4.5 times larger than the Polish one.
How it compare to the absolute poverty and hopelessness of living under communism? Of receiving the equivalent of 20 USD as a monthly wage? Even if numbers are meaningless at least this shows that Poland was two times poorer than Yugoslavia and almost two times than Bulgaria.
How it compare to the absolute poverty and hopelessness
Or the absolute poverty and hopelessness of living under capitalism, especially when economies contract, the workers lose everything and the 'investors' lose only their initial investment at most.
a degree of jealousy
Jealousy?
35 years ago we were a grey, sad, post-communist sh*thole. Today we caught up with Japan in GDP per capita. I don't know if there is any other country in the world who achieved a comparable progress. It is others who should be jealous of us.
Today we caught up with Japan in GDP per capita
In part because of the decline of Japan.
The growth in Poland is due to the one factor that has both blessed and cursed it; geography.
The growth in Poland is due to the one factor that has both blessed and cursed it; geography.
Our geography didn't change in 1989. Economic and political system did.
Our geography
Economically a good location, but geopolitically disastrous.
@Torq,
I meant that Germany "won" the economic war after being both physically and psychically defeated.
Had Poland, for that matter former East Zone, been pumped with US dollars a la The Marshall Plan, perhaps she too might have rebounded
with the drive or zeal of post-War Germany!
I meant that Germany "won" the economic war after being both physically and psychically defeated.
Had Poland, for that matter former East Zone, been pumped with US dollars a la The Marshall Plan, perhaps she too might have rebounded
with the drive or zeal of post-War Germany!
The antipathy towards the Germans is obvious, whether deserved or not.
Don't be debil! lol
What antipathy? You suffer from an inferiority complex.
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In part because of the decline of Japan.
Verify your facts. The economic growth achieved in the last 30 years is the highest in two countries: China and Poland.
Had Poland (...) been pumped with US dollars a la The Marshall Plan, perhaps she too might have rebounded with the drive or zeal of post-War Germany?
That's right!
It took us 35 years since 1989 to catch up with Japan in GDP per capita. Imagine where Poland would be today if we had started with proper economic system in 1945.
It seems that after the introduction of border controls, cross-border trade on the Polish side will collapse. I must say that it doesn't worry me at all. The very name "Polen Markt" was misleading. No Poles bought anything there. Everything was geared towards foreign, German customers. When all this falls apart, it's the next step towards normality.
Our geography didn't change in 1989. Economic and political system did.
Yes. The malign influence of r*SSia vanished and instead of being the wrong side of a divide, the curtain fell and PL was again a crossroads.
All countries are prisoners of geography.
Verify your facts
The facts are that Japan has declined (though quality of life is far higher than in China( and Poland is now in the boom phase of boom and bust.
Imagine where Poland would be today
Perhaps worse off than now..