Why Poland is Finally Becoming a Rich Country
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For almost its entire history Poland has been a bitterly poor nation. In the middle of Europe between Germany and Russia it has served as a battleground on more than one occasion. But over the last 30 years things have changed, in this period its economy has been one of Europes best performers, and by some estimates may be richer than the UK by 2030. It also has one of Europe's strongest army's. So how did this all happen?
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Y U using star wars names?
for F sake man , Poland was never a part of Soviet Union . Another genius without basic knowlage in topic .....
He said that he didn't read books just some summaries of them. No wonder his story suffers from so many errors and egregious simplifications.
Poland IS NOT a former soviet state!
Państwo satelitarne .... Wschodniego bloku uzależnione od ZSRR ... język angielski jest prymitywny....
@@neosolve6781 Nie jest, satellite state to określenie którego szukasz.
Albo soviet puppet state, I jest prosty ale nie prymitywny.
@@neosolve6781 państwo satelickie*
In addition to that statement, there is a mistake in the narrative of this video "with the fall of Soviet Union". Communism collapsed in Poland in 1989 whereas the Soviet Union fell 2 years later in 1991.
Poland was part of the Warsaw pact. It was essentially a Soviet vassal state. It was not a part of the USSR.
same thing for the purpose of modern history.
The narrator didn't say Poland was part of the USSR. He said Poland of that era was a satellite state of the Soviet Union. But that separation was on paper only. As a bitter joke of the Poland's dark communism era would say, the most important person in Warsaw at the time was the Russian ambassador.
All Soviet Propaganda for the dumb West masses. The Ruling Communists were all Soviet sock puppets, some were Russians with changed names. MOST were Zydishers hiding their ID under New Polish names - as is the case today.
grow up and face facts
@@kaminski8000 w sumie na początku mapa wskazuje na Polskę jako część związku radzieckiego hehe nawet nie ma tam wschodnich Niemiec
And that was worse than being part of the Soviet Union.
Apart from the fact that Poland was never part of the USSR, there is one more mistake in the film. Claiming that Poland has been a poor country for centuries. Meanwhile, until the 18th century it was one of the richest countries in Europe. Even after various parts of it came under Russian rule in the 19th century, it was its richest province. In fact, it was only in the 19th century when industrialization began, which we could not take advantage of because we were divided, and as a result of the destruction of both world wars, our economic position decreased.
Another important inaccuracy. Poland was the first to reject communism. Only later did the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall fall. We were already a free country when communism was still in force in other Eastern Bloc countries. There was a period of time when Germans from the DDR fled west through Poland.
Co ty pierdolisz. Nie wzięliśmy udziału w rewolucji przemysłowej, bo byliśmy biednym, zacofanym, niedorozwiniętym państwem bez żadnych instytucji, z niewyobrażalnymi nierównościami. Sami jesteśmy sobie winni.
100%
Not soviets, Orcssians.
If Orcssia keeps soviet union's seat in UN, we should name drop them for their Crimeas.
"until the 18th century it was one of the richest countries in Europe" - it wasn't, but it was not poor either - up until about the Swedish Deluge. Since then it became basically a shithole and whenever someone tried to fix this, foreign powers crushed all initiative with brute force.
This film shows clearly Poland was not a part of USSR. Watch the whole thing.
0:21 "...costing thousands of lives" I wish you were right but in WW2 Poland lost about 6 MILION citizens.
As pre-war Poland included many minorities total of 6 MILION includes 3 MILION Jews and up to 3 MILION Poles killed in the WW2 started in September 1939 by Germany, Soviet Union and Slovakia.
All of them were polish citizens so all of them were Poles, Jewish Poles that lived there for almost one thousand years.. Distinguishing them is like saying that there is no such thing as Jewish Americans, just Jews that live in America. They are obviously all american.
@@JannSeb never trusted. Why ? They didn't speak Polish. They spoke German Yiddisher. Why ?
@@metanoian965 they spoke Polish and even when some didn't, they were still Poles.
@@metanoian965 They spoke Polish
@@HAL-kd7ve After which date did they begin to learn outside their Magdeburg Recht sin-a-gogos ?
Never Polish - always Jws.
During WW ii the Polish Resistant Groups had to protect Polish villagers from the J gangs who attacked remote villages.
Polish protecting Polish from the always Jw foreigners. Why ?
NOT Polish.
Communism in Poland fell when there was still Berlin wall and soviet union (1989)
August 1939 poland was ranked 20th biggest economy in the world . Then in 1991 Polish economy was ranked 100th in the world . Poland is just getting back to where it used to be
before ww2 estonia was richer then finland
You are so silly writing all this
there were less countries back then.
At peak of Polish- Commonwealth in 1600, according to the statistic Poland was 5th biggest economy in the world (only behind China, India Ottoman Empire and German Holly Empire) - hard to imagine now (currently: 20th place)
Yeah we r coming back as China
Happy to hear about Poland’s progress. Pozdrowienia z Bułgarii!
I hope that your country will also have such a bright future. Поздрави от Полша
I am also happy to hear good news from my Polish kuzyn. Pozdrowienia z Kanada!
☮️🤝💟👍
Happy to see Bulgaria (and Romania also) grow. No one believed, but all of us former Warsaw Pacters (is there such a word?) are pretty competent and stubborn bastars apparently. Lets keep on good work :)
I am Polish, I am 46 years old and I am proud of what we have achieved during this time. I have never left the country. I always live in Poland and I remember eating bread with sugar when I was young. Today I am simply proud of what we have achieved as POLES.
i am also 46 from PL and i also remember having eaten bread with sugar in my childhood ;-)
I was born in szczecin in 1988. One of my first memories is my dad going to the army during conscription and asking my parents if I can get this toy robot dinosaur at a fle market. They were debating if they could afford a cheap toy.i never got it. They didn't have the money. Man times have changes
I was born in 1974 in western Poland. My parents took a picture of me in 1978 - there was a banana lying on the table on that picture. That was the only banana I had been seeing till 1989.
Later on I finished university and got a job in 1999 working for American IT company. I ended up working for Silicon Valley and took a part in GSM revolution changing the world and making six figures a year in euro… it lasts till now! Times had changed indeed.
We have achieved shit. Wow, you love to fool yourself.
@@przemysawpawlinski5536 you have achieved shit. Speak for yourself!
MILIONS OF LIVES! 6 milions in just WW2 alone ...
Poland was never dominated by the Soviets, and they knew it. The Soviet ideology, way of life was openly dismissed by Poles. As one Soviet diplomat said: "it would be easier to train a cow for horse racing rather then make Poles admiring Soviets".
Dude Poland was fucking abused by them
Some historians claim Poland to be for the Russia what China was for Mongols. It indeed was the most developed part of Russian Tsardom and most influential/rich people of Third Rome were Poles. Unfortunately Polish higher class was kept away from institutional power in Russia and strongly discriminated against which led to insurrections that made sharing a state impossible from then on. Consequences of those animosities are felt to this day, as Russians perceive Poles to be American puppets and Poles see Russians as uncivilized and "more Mongol than European"
they were more GERMAN oriented we know even in those years WWII
"Poland was never dominated by the Soviets" - the Polish authorities were approved in Moscow, the Polish economy was controlled from Moscow, products and natural resources were transfered from Poland to the USSR in exchange for so-called transfer rubles (meaningless pieces of paper), can you explain exactly what you mean when you say that Poland was not dominated by Russia?
Translating this to present times, compare the GDP of Poland and Ukraine starting from 1990 - and check what in reality means Russian dominated country
@@Marcin-xx9cd
Idelogically.
Look at Ukraine before the invasion. Half of them were actually pro Mordor before Bucha.
I wish my country of Bulgaria would have been like Poland. Instead, at least half of the population romanticizes the Soviet times, about two million people have left the country and the mafia still has relatively big influence. Sure, there is some progress, but this is despite of the above. I hope in the next decades we will continue to catch up.
Lots of Poles complain about the transformation and some wants more direct state control in economy or basically every part of the country, currently the biggest party and previously ruling PIS is basically more socialist than the former communists. Also, plenty Poles emigrated after 2004, Poles are the biggest minorities in Iceland, Norway or Netherlands, maybe even in UK. There's no soviet sentiment because Poles see it as a foreign occupation, just another chapter in our fight with Moscow.
I'm not complaining, I'm still proud of what Poland achieved but it's not perfect.
I hope and wish Bulgaria to catch up, it has a great potential but don't count on politicians to do it for you.
@@05KARPIS is the best Gouverment Poland ever had. Thanks to them economy grewth, poverty went low as also corruption.
@@azeca0025 One of the most corrupted governments, with convicted criminals on board like Kamiński and Wąsik, wasted and stole billions, destroyed the judicial system and conflicted Poland with its closest allies for no reason.
@@azeca0025 The most corrupted government, with convicted criminals, tried to destroy the judicial system and relationships with EU together with Orban and Le Pen.
@@azeca0025 super partia kurvo!
There is one very serious error in this movie. Poland was never a state of the Soviet Union. We were living in a country dependent on USRR, like other satellite countries of the East block, but we maintained some independence. This is why such movements like Solidarity appeared here and the fall of the Soviet block started here (not in Germany).
Ale nikogo to nie obchodzi. To nie o tym jest ten filmik. Odnoś się do meritum sprawy, a nie rozmieniaj swojej uwagi na drobne. Skup się, skoncentruj się lepiej, a będziesz mieć łatwiej w życiu. Trenuj swój umysł, żeby był ostry jak brzytwa.
@@Matt-rw9py ok brzytwo. Wiesz co to są szczegóły? wytrenuj sie zeby zrozumieć co to są szczegóły bo to one są ważne w życiu
@@nexor7809 No tak, będziemy analizować każdy nieistotny szczególik, a nie odnosić się do istoty sprawy. Taka właśnie zawsze jest dyskusja z Polakami - ja o niebie Ty o chlebie. Zawsze będziemy przegrywać bo jesteśmy mało precyzyjni i zbyt powolni w myśleniu i działaniu.
@@Matt-rw9py Jesli zignorujemy szczegoły ryzykujemy uproszczenie historii i pominięcie ważnych aspektow które mogą wpływać na naszą interpretację wydarzeń. Dlatego właśnie warto zwracac uwagę na te "drobne" rzeczy - to one składają się na pełny obraz i pozwalają nam lepiej zrozumieć zarówno przeszłość, jak i teraźniejszość. Bez precyzyjności która obejmuje dbałość o szczegóły nasze argumenty stają się mniej wiarygodne i bardziej podatne na błędy
A twój problem tez tkwi w typowym dla polski obwinianiu polaków ze coś robią zle i są gorsi bo nie zgadza sie to z twoją wizją
Poles lost 25% of population in six years of second world war. In Poland war ended in 1990
And when I look on hooligan pages on instagram or telegram, I see some Polish people supporting nazis...
Not so funny fact was that in the same 1990, during negotiations of Two Plus Four Treaty, Germany (read Kohl's diary) initially rejected Poland's western border. And later was in fact forced to include this in the Treaty. So because of this German idea and attempt to reverse the defeat of 1945, the term "end of the WW2 in 1990" seems to me a bit overstatement. We'll see...
In the 9th minute, there is an information that Poland was a former Soviet state. That is obviously not true. Please change this false audio part. The clip is very good otherwise.
im pretty sure that just meant soviet sattelite state
Said satellite
I travelled all over Europe and most
Of the world. Poland is the best country in Europe.
the scenery or people?
All of it!
Damn, thanks 🥰
@@izeko.3265 Hmm I Like your answer... You are welcomed in POLSKA...!!!
@@skuadak2 that IS a true Polish answer...
Love from LITHUANIA big brothers :))
Greetings from Lublin, when Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth started!
2:30 Poland wasn't poor for centuries. The 16th century is called by historians and publicists the golden age in the history of Poland. It is widely believed that this is a period of state power, peace, security and prosperity.
Acutally, Poland´s success stroy is more complex than what you have found out. Poland may have been a coummunist state with command economy on paper, but in fact it was only partially a command economy. The great majority of polish farm land was privatly owned, as the oppostion against nationalization of land and peasant traditions were too strong and the communists had to abandon their nationalization plans. Same can be said for a hudge number of private entrepreneurs who owned thousands of small businesses across the country, from a backyard toy-factory to private owned car-repair-shops and taxis. They all were filling the gaps left by the the command economy. The farms were small but they provided the food items which could be found at farmers markets in the towns, the private producers provided the consumers with items, which couldn´t be found in state-owned shops. Those people learned how to manage in a market economy and they were the real pioneers after the change of the political system in 1989. It didn´t take them long to start successful businesses. This is a big difference to neighbouring countries like Czechoslovakia or GDR, not to mention the USSR where private entrepreneurship was virtually non existant.
There are more aspects: Polish communists were more liberal than their peers in other countries of the Eastern Block (maybe with exception of Hungary with its goulash communism). Poles were allowed to a certain extend to travel abroad to western countries. They were there for work and either send money to their families back home or they came back with cash and experience and started some kind of business. Therefore Poles were more industrious, mobile and flexible after 1989.
And not to forget: communist rule may have left the economy in shambles, but it gave millions of people good education after the WWII, it mobilized millions of peasants to move to towns, to learn new skills and to study.
All this explains, why Poles had some advantages at the start in 1989 other similar countries didn´t have.
If an underdog rises up to become a superpower, then it inspires all of us. Wishes to Polish power from India!!
Beautiful country, beautiful people, a proud and ancient culture forged by a thousand years of war and hardship, Poland knows a thing or two about adapting and surviving. Poland would already have been a global superpower long ago if its population didn't spend so much of their brainpower trying to comprehend their own language.
😅 dobre
As one scientist stated. Poles have more developed minds, thanks to their language.
*The last sentence is stupid. Polish is the basic Slavic language, it is no more difficult than Czech, Slovak, Russian or Ukrainian.*
@@gorniklecznaman3414 that's like saying that brain surgery is just a basic medical procedure no more difficult than a heart transplant.
@@Max-vl1in Semitic languages are more developed and more Rich than Slavic languages by thousands of light years 😊
No doubt, the semitic minds are more advanced by many levels 🙃
Poland was not part of the soviet union
I believe a crucial factor for Polish economic success is its currency. Not having the Euro and controlling its own currency allows Poland to adjust its exchange rate based on the needs of its own economy to attract FDI. The Euro is the reason why the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek economies are so damaged, as they cannot control their own exchange rate to adjust to their economic needs, like the Italians did with the Lira in the 20th century. Hopefully Poland can keep its currency and keep up the good growth in the next decades.
Wrong. Poland has been developing without interruption since 1992, when the euro did not yet exist. Your problem is not the euro, but the lack of difficult and painful reforms. Poland had to introduce such reforms 30 years ago and is reaping the benefits. I would even say that the introduction of the euro could significantly accelerate economic growth in Poland.
@@g.peters244 maybe it could but it's not worth it to be even more dependent from EU isntitutions.
@@KunDziki What are the EU institutions? A parliament in which there are Poles? A Commission with a Polish Commissioner with dozens if not hundreds of Polish officials? The Court of Justice of the EU in which there are Polish judges? It was Polish poiticians who co-created the Green Deal with which they are now scaring the Poles. The European Union is us. Not the Martians from Brussels.
Estonia and lithuania were almost as rich as pole 30years ago, they use the euro and they have a gdp per capita ppa a bit higher than polish today, it's not about the currency it's more a catch up from former soviet influence countries, and this catch up is more or less faster depending on the political stability and the efficience of their economics policies
@@g.peters244 Every centralized institutions has its flaws, there is a reason why the richest and best to live countries on earth are not very big. Generally big countries are pretty bad to live outside of wartime.
Decentralization is power and it doesn't matter if there are Poles in Parliament or not, its about how far from controllers (voters) are those who make decisions.
The further the distance between controlling force and decisionmakers the worse it is.
"Poland is on a brink to become a superpower" - are you mad?
Poland has become a highly appreciated factory for videogames also
Poland was never part of soviet union.
@@BluestoryKamil Bruh. Learn some english before commenting
Ja tez nie. W orginale napisalem ze Polska nigdy nie byla czescia zwiazku radzieckiego. Chyba zgadasz sie z tym faktem? Pozdrawiam
@@matti2357 Sorry i must have mixed up something
I left Poland in 1983 when I was 8 years old and gruw up in 3 different western countrys... But 3 years ago I returnd to POLSKA... But I am living in Germany too because I am a Truck Driver 😊😊😊 brrrumm, brum, brrrum😂😂😂
Ciekawe jak kurwa wyjechałeś z Polski w wieku 8 lat w tamtych latach. Chyba po znajomościach.
Nie rozumiem - czy wróciłeś do Polski czy Niemiec , czy obecnie jesteś bezpaństwowcem ?
Za komuny nikt tak zwyczajnie nie mógł wyjechać z Polski , można było uciec przez tzw zieloną granicę z narażeniem życia bo strzelali do uciekinierów - wyjechać mogli szpiedzy i kolaboranci wykonać określone zadania a oficjalnie byli jako dyplomaci lub studenci
@@JarrowJR Hmmm... Nie bylo latwo...
@@MieczysawDerezinski Wrocilem... Ale zyje tez w Niemiec. Dlatego te niemieckie litery... Witam Wojciech
Poland was never a part of the soviet union. Correct the video if possible please. It is offensive.
Free speech. It doesn't matter if it's offensive. The comment section is to correct that. You did that very good.
Free speech Has nothing to do with talking bullshits. Facts are not matter of opiniom. You can easy research what is true and what is not.
Well done Poland ❤❤🎉
Poland is such a perfect example to follow, i have great respect and admiration for this country
Poland was not rapidly defeated in 1939, as you claim in the video. The Polish campaign lasted for 5 weeks, just a week shorter that the Battle of France and you need to remember that on 17 September 1939 Poland was attacked by Soviet Union from the East, but for that Poland would had defended itself for much, much longer than it actually did.
And Poland existed only for 20 years and was 10 years after war with Bolsheviks... Plus was made from three different parts after partitions, where even railway tracks had different width.
After 6 days, capital Warsaw was encircled, so ye theoreticly Poles were defending on some minor and not important areas, but majority and most important parts of the country were taken by Germans within few days.
Jakie pięć tygodni... czytasz nie te książki, co trzeba. Kampania wrześniowa była przegrana już po 3 dniach. Później tylko nieskładne wycofywanie się, bitwa nad Bzurą, kilka potyczek miejscowo. Przestań mitologizować naszą największą militarną porażkę w dziejach. Zostaliśmy rozjechani niesamowicie.
I'm from Poland and "Poland is on the brink of becoming a superpower" is the most funny thing I heard in last days ;d And no, we don't have a largest army in EU. In fact, we have fewer tanks now than we had in 40s in WW2 (where Poland didn't even existed), poor soldiers traning and bad equipment. The last problems on the Belarus border show how bad polish army is, three soldiers even got charges after firing warning shoots in the air and a soldier died (was punched with a knife on a stick).
I could see the growth and the generalized positive feeling of the Poles when visiting Krakow (2023) and Gdansk (2024). They have got HOPE and COURAGE back on track. Hope that they make it and make it last! Love.
Poland was never part of the soviet union. It was a satelite state, but not a part of the soviet union. Also our military spending is not a good thing. What is the limit? Are we gonna spend 6% on military next? What about our other problems?? This is ridiculous.
Poland was never part of the Soviet Union. was a member of the Warsaw Pact and was dependent on the communist authorities of the USSR. Poland was poor because the Polish economy was drained by the USSR.
3:49 poland, czhecia, east germany, romania and bulgaria were all part of warsaw pact not directly part of the ussr, also yugoslavia wasnt part of the warsaw pact and was mostly independant even though it was communist
czechoslovakia
I love my country and I would die for it. Remember this.
The film presents Poland primarily through the example of Warsaw, portraying it as a symbol of the country's economic success as a whole. However, it is important to emphasize that many other Polish cities and regions have also experienced impressive development and prosperity. It would be worth including their stories in the next episode to present a more comprehensive picture of Poland.
Thousands? lol
Right?
That's more offensive than claiming Poland to be a soviet state. Milions of lives, oh! what an oversight, clumsy me.
Thank you for the video! There are some misconceptions explained in other comments, but you made amazing job putting it all together anyway and I admire you talking about Poland ❤️
The story being told is much more complex. The free market was introduced in Poland by the last communist government (the so-called ‘Wilczek Act’) a year before Balcerowicz.
The projections of Poland being wealthier than the UK in 2030, while widely reported, are inaccurate. It’s very unlikely that will be the case in terms of PPP. What can be said though, is that there is much to learn from the Poles. They’re doing a great job at helping their citizens live more prosperous lives.
i think it’s very likely the UK is poorer every day while Poland keeps getting richer
Correct. The City of London = Banksters Central - is not going anywhere for any reason
It’s the GDP per capita PPP that Poland is set to overtake UK by 2030. This was reported by World Bank.
Wealthier definetly not, since wealth is accumulated across many generations and UK didn't have communism, UK was not that badly destroyed by 2nd world war and even before war they were far richer, so average Briton will be still a lot of wealthier than average Pole, its about purchasing power of a single salary and yes probly around 2030 purchasing power of salary in Poland will be higher than in UK, since UK did some really stupid moves, first leaving EU and then refusing to be part of single market.
Yes ok Good Day. 👍♥️ From Poland
Middle income trap and foreign ownership of key industries is indeed an issue. But Poland's possible ticket in the big leagues is its IT industry with many experts in AI.
Middle income trap is a joke theory, it doesnt even exist. How many big companies has Iceland or Liechtenstein?
It doesn't matter if country has "its own" companies or they are foreign, ask Ireland.
Poland was not a "Soviet State" as it wans't a part of the USSR!! Simple fact easy to check!
It was still under Soviet government
Nicely done. Thank you
Excellent video, well put info!
You did mistake you did draw Soviet Union own Poland at start
Haha, yes, fortunately later it was underlined Poland was a satelite state and not a part of it, but already in the comments Poles went to war armed with words about it :D It's the worst insult imaginable to us after all :D
Javier Milei ought to consider having some Polish talent in his circle of advisors.
Direct experience and a thorough understanding of Poland's economic transformation could be highly useful.
Something that worked in PL not nessesarly will work anywhere else. It's just too complex. We have rich freind on our borders, who helped us growth (trade) . Not mentioning extremly motivated people who want work very hard to escape poverty. Southern Countries have more relax way of living, mostly due to heat waves. Therfore it's not copy/pastę situation.
@@baassiia I forget where I said "Poland is identical to Argentina. No significant difference. I recommend mindlessly copying everything it did." Help me out here.
The moment Milei gets in contact with Korwin-Mikke, sh*t will hit the fan so f*cking hard. One can only imagine...
Poland was never part of the Soviet Union
it was vasall , russia still controlled it
@@naapsuvaimne740 all of the european communist countries besides Jugoslavia were satelite states. But still sovereign and not part of the USSR.
@@JannSeb thats true, russia controlled all of them
@@JannSeb Soviet tanks in Hungary and Czechoslovakia put that myth to bed.
A lot of money from the EU as well. Not to diminish their accomplishment, just to say that they were really smart at spending well those money, it wasn't a given.
After all they had lost because of the past it’s more than deserving to get the support from the EU. The EU would never support if they wouldn’t get it back double, and that’s already a fact. So hold your horses
@@Kaylyc Nobody gives you free money, and Poland was a net beneficiary for years. But again, that's my point. They were smart enough to invest it wisely putting up with whatever condition they had to pay to develop their economy.
@@LucaStanga-ww4pm EU funds are way overhyped, its not really about that EU funds but EU's single market, thats the most important thing.
And I think thats also what UK didnt understand, that even though they "paid" to EU more than they were taking, it was still worth to be part of EU to be part of single market that gives growth.
According to wikipedia, average net income, per month: 1343 EUR. According to Numbeo, cost of living without rent: 660 EUR, single bedroom apt rent: 650 EUR. 1343-660-650=33 EUR. How's that rich if you have only 30 euro after spending on basic needs?
Most Poles (close to 90 per cent) do not rent but own their houses/apartments so they spend considerably less on housing than people in western Europe. Check home ownership by country at Wikipedia.
I would like to say: becoming an 'expensive' country for citizens, not a rich
free countries need a strong Poland
I am from Poland. Our growth is based on cheap labour and low taxes for corporations 😂
Soviet Union collapsing in 1989?! May want to fact check. Even a referendum in March 1991 stated that most states wanted the USSR to remain- which it would until December of that year.
Americans are confused since poland got out of communism in 1989 being the first country that did so
unofficial it collapsed 1989 , you are not correwct if you say* most states wanted to stay* poor region wanted to stay in the ussr because thgey got alot money from ussr
Part of the way Poland survived the 2008 downturn was remittances. Particularly from Ireland. Ireland was still experiencing its Celtic Tiger phase. Every person in the Irish service industry, at the time, was Polish.
Great music, especially @ 16:30. Where did you get it from?
WoW player wie co dobre dla ucha. Pozdro.
POLANDwas not part of ussr , only baltics and ukraine was part of ussr , and then nations from southeast russia
TV sets and refrigirators were common
in Poland since the 60's.
false...
@@giovannip8600 I used them then.
And one of the first TV transmitions
in Europe beafore 2WW was in
Warsaw.
@@piotr.leniec-lincow5209 👍👍👍👍, nontheless statistics don't change
@@giovannip8600 there is the truth,
there is the lie and there is the.....
statistics.
@@piotr.leniec-lincow5209 hahaha, yeah, they weren't commonplace in households tho, can't deny that
Wow,congratulations ❤
Saying that localization between Germany and Russia cost Poland thousands of lives is understatement. WW2 alone killed millions of Poles.
Countless people were annihilated during various occupations or enslaved and sent to Syberia for near certain death in work camps.
Please site all sources because Ibwas intrested in reading set articles.
It’s better than it was , it’s still more work ahead … keep the country rolling … keep working … ⭐️🇵🇱⭐️
As a kid living in Yugoslavia, I went to Poland and Romania several times in 1980s. I just couldn't fathom the level of poverty there compared to my country.
Popatrz jak się wszystko zmieniło... Mój dziadek był w Jugosławii przed wojną. Był porażony biedą jaką tam widział. Dziś,stajemy się coraz mocniejsi,a kraje byłej Jugosławii idą na dno.
you're going places. nebula 2026! i'm calling it.
14:42 with outflow is that we should have to provide salary that will satisfy us that we don’t have to move abroad to live good standard. A lot of Polish people have practice of working in countries with EURO, because then it is how we can have satisfying salary while living in Poland 🇵🇱 if prices drop 4 times, for sure we’d be back + lower tax for entrepreneurs
Świetny odcinek! 🇵🇱
Is this some sort of project for a student to complete?
Recent official data revealed that NET EU funds inflow to Poland reached 160 billion euro within 20 years. So it makes on average 8 billion euro per year. Considering that 90 % (I do jot recall exactly) went back to so called "old"😅 Europe countries, this EU fund bonanza needs to be viewed without bias.
It is 85 % not 90 %
To be a significant power, you need population. And no, immigration wouldn't help, because the population also needs to be loyal and with common interests.
What are you talking about? The US was built on immigration and remains the world's only superpower. They clearly did something right.
superpower ? what fanfiction is this ? my country is lost
Even that in general it's a good message and logic chain, thee are some false affirmation like Poland was the poorest in Europe - it wasn't: as Albania, Bulgaria, Romania or even Yugoslavia & Hungary was lagging behind
there was a pint where PL was 146 in the world behind Gabon and poorest in Europe by gdp i capita only for a moment thou
Only Albania was poorer than Poland in the late 80s.
Do Portugal next
We are so rich that we cannot afford houses. So rich...
Poland isn't USSR clame it is Warsawa
Poor because there is Russia. Rich because there is no Russia. Easy
Then explain to me why Russia have similar GDP per capita like Poland?
@@play_boy7543Firstly Russian gdp per capita is lower. Secondly it’s actually amazing since Russia has all those natural resources and exploited its colonial empire in Europe until 1990s. And yet an average salary in Poland is 3 times an average salary in Russia.😂😂😂
@@kroolis77 How can salary be 3x lower when gdp per capita is lower just about 15% in Russia,and if we count gdp ppp there is even smaller gap,so no standard in Russia is same like in Poland
@@kroolis77 I just checked your fake data about salary in Russia,there is about 15k us dollar a year income in russia,in poland it is about 23k,but when we count inflation and cost of living via gdp ppp,we can see that real standard is the same
@@play_boy7543 you didn’t mention ppp in your original comment. Only gdp so you lied and I was right. PPP is subjective and imprecise. Especially since Russian inflation figures are … unreliable. Their central bank interest rate is at 16% yet inflation is supposedly at single digits? How does that work exactly?
Poland never was a part of USSR. This should be noted in the video.
All you people commenting need to listen more carefully. It gets very tiresome.
Wyj you didn’t show full map of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. You cut out the part of todays ukraine. Same about 1939 map, you showed it so briefly, most people couldn’t see that ukraine is build on Polish territory stolen by russians.
Soviet colapsed 1991!
I love all these comments clowning on this dude’s historical accuracy
Refrigerators and TVs were luxury goods maybe only in the 1950s when they were recently invented and the economy was recovering from ruin after the war, but it was the same in the West. Even in the poorest years of the 1980s, when ineffective communism was falling, statistics show that Polish families owned about 30% of the wealth of families in the West, and having a refrigerator and TV was common in Poland.
Yesterday I found out, that American minimum wage is about the same as Polish one. It is 7.25 USD per hour, and Polish is 28.10 PLN (~7.17 USD). But in Poland, prices and cost of living is much, much lower. This literally blew my mind. Our poorest live better lives than American poorest. You can easily rent an apartment at minimal wage - it will take half of your pay, and it will be very small apartment of course, but it i possible. I would never imagined how far my country will develop. As I millennial, I remember well how poor we were.
In USA around 1% of people are earning minimum wage, in Poland its about 20%, so that's a little bit of difference.
Minimum wage in USA is compared to their economy way too low and in Poland it is a bit too high.
USA could easly have like 15$ minimum wage.
@@hehenoelo4858 In USA about 5%, but up to 25% in some counties. Remember that USA is like a country within a country. I know it's still hard to compare US to Poland, but my point is we made all that in 30 years. While in the meantime, US practically got stuck, and many Americans even says that living quality is on a downfall and got much worse since 90s and 80s. Today many people cannot afford rent with just a single wage, I heard that NYC Bus driver earns 80% of a rent. Warsaw bus driver earns 8k PLN and rent in Warsaw is about 3k. So he has 5k left for living. In small town where I live, rent is 1500PLN so even people on minimal wage can afford that.
@@hehenoelo4858 you do realise that america has bigger wealth gap than russia right? all this gdp per capita in america is very inaccurate as most of that per capita goes to the top 5% basically
on the other hand poland is very equal. Its more equal than even germany in terms of wealth distribution. If you look at the nordic countries they all have great distribution of wealth as well. America is the opposite
@@Blido No, i quote you official data, in USA it's 1.3% of people who earn minimum wage. In Poland It is 25-30% of workers.
When it comes to rent prices, remember that in USA, people are thinking more about buying house rather than renting it.
In USA average square meter of apartment in city centre is around 3 300 $ while in Poland it is 3 900$, while average salary in Poland (after tax) is around 1 400$ versus 4 500$ in USA. So people in USA earn 3-times more than in Poland, while paying less to buy house.
@@Blido You don't know what you are talking about. US didn't increase their minimum wage for YEARS. That doesn't mean that the wages didn't incerease. Imagine the next 20 years polish minimum wage would increase similary to the last 20 years, while the US one would stay the same. Does that mean Poland would be twice as welathy? Ofc no, because the US does not rely on the minimum wage.
5:20 Where did you get this 20% number? Because as someone feom Poland I can guarantee you it well over 50%. Obviously depends how you define it but I'd say barley having enough food and room to yourself is sufficient. The housing crisis was very much really I know families that had 7 people living in a 1 bedroom apartment
Overall very good video! Main changes well described. It is not that easy to chose main thread from complex reality.
Despite that soviet union :)
Poland still need to develop big companies, but I would not worry about savings rate. Plenty of foreign investors would invest in a promising company.
The world don’t need more big soul eating companies. We need innovative and creative solutions in an harmonious way of integrating all important aspects of life. We don’t need industrial bullshit that’s not the future
Finnland is a good example*
"Invaded numerous times costing thousands of lives"
- that'd probably be millions
Since Poland joined European Union, it was a single most backed country in UE and is still today. Billions of euros went into this country from other EU nations. Probably was the right thing to do from Germany. But suprisingly, it's not the most significant factor to Polands raise in economic growth as shown by the balkans. It was rather the Polish culture that was hardened so much, it worked many more hours than any other EU country and still is to this day 39h/month is way above average. That stacks and continue to stack.
Polish pros are:
- protecting the culture
- making sure its EU beneficient
- very high education and knowledge
- extremely high investment opportunities due to it being in Europe and still having low wages (1/3 of EU dominants)
- Mostly conservatist politics, meaning "we protect our own" while Europe is more left "we protect everyone, including Poland"
By 2030 it will change tho, we will around this year become net provider to EU and every effort to bring Poland to EU standards economically will pay off. That was the single best decision of EU to pump money in this country.
Witajcie, Bracia! 49 lat. Katowiczanin. Jak byłem bajtlem oglądałem ZOMO i ORMO po ulicach, bijace ludzi (często na śmierć) i pancry jadące na "Wujek". Pamiętam szarość, konformizm, brud i strach ludzi przed tą BOLSZEWICKĄ HOŁOTĄ. Pracowaliśmy przez 30 lat aby do czegoś dojść i ani UE ani putin ani nikt inny nam tego nie odbierze! PRZYSZŁOŚĆ NALEŻY DO NAS!
Wszystkiego dobrego!
PS. ...a tłumaczyć na angielski nie ma i po co... i tak nie zrozumieją!... (tym lepiej dla NAS!).
Moze i zbyt pesymistycznie na swiat patrze i bede komentarzem demoralizowal ale czy ja wiem czy nalezy przyszlosc do nas. Jestem 20 letnim szczylem z politechniki i nie nawet nie czuje sensu w tym zyciu a cala walka z systemem z tamtych czasow sprawia wrazenie jakby ostatecznie byla po nic.
1. Dom ciezko bedzie postawic na dzisiejszy stan + regulacje wszedzie
2. Wszedzie kwalifikacje z nieba wymgane do pracy
3. Im bardziej podnosza minimalna tym bardziej moja edukacja bedzie mniej warta i zachete do nauki i pracy zabieraja bo moge pojsc do byle warzywniaka pracowac za podobna cene co w elektrowni po magistrze i uprawnieniach na ktore pol zycia sie staralem, jak w warzywniaku tylko warzywa rozpoznawac trzeba, umiec wstukac cene na kase i uzywac miotly starczy a nie kontroli transformatorow, pilnowania druta na ktorym jest 400000V golymi lapami czy projektowania calego systemu majac tylko kartke, olowek i mase wiedzy, odechciewa sie kompletnie bo dostawac 35 zamiast 27 zlotych to wielka mi roznica za taki trud
4. Rozkradna wszystko w podatkach i dokarmiac beda nimi nieproduktywnych ludzi jak kоmuchy dawniej ktore odgornie biznesy utrzymywaly przy zyciu ktore powinny dawno pasc i to promuje patologie ba i nawet finansowo nagradza bycie trutniem i wrzodem
5. Ludzie nie maja ani skromnosci ani pomyslunku o drugim, nawet jak bylem maly co nie bylo tak dawno temu to przynajmniej mieli tyle szacunku ze nie klneli przy mnie nawet dresy na ulicach, dzisiaj nie kontroluja sie z niczym bo nie mysla o drugim w ogole ponadto jak dzisiaj kultura mlodziezowa jest zdemoralizowana to przechodzi pojecie i ze rodzice do tego dopuszczaja, to nie jest cywilizacja
6. Za wszystko na policje zadzwonia a wiem bo mam 20 lat i juz mialem pare okazji ze ktos bezinteresownie zglaszal drobnice typu ze babka sprzedala mi piwo bez pokazania dowodu bo sie znamy na wiosce a mialem i tak 18 a wioska ostatnio turystyczna sie zrobila, a tu pach policja pozniej w sklepie bo tak i marnuje pieniadze z podatkow na policje, czas tych panow i nasz zeby osiagnac nic, a zwlaszcza ze ktokolwiek dzwonil tez nic nie osiagnie w pierwszym miejscu a najoblesniejsze jest ze turysta to pewnie zrobil lokalnemu, brak szacunku dla gospodarza kompletny, idzie do czyjejs wsi i jeszcze rzadzic sie bedzie
7. Wszedzie sa kamery, wszystkie komentarze sa zapisywane raz na zawsze, jedne powiniecie nogi i moge pozegnac sie z jakimkolwiek marzeniem bo karanego nigdzie nie wezma.
8. Mam wrazenie ze ludzie zrobili sie obrzydliwie pyszalkowaci ostatnio, musza sie wszystkim chwalic kazdemu i na sile, ohyda
9. Stare kreskowki dla dzieci ktore mialem szczescie ogladac byly moralizujace, dzisiaj im bardziej wode robia z mozgu tym lepsze bo rodzic moze pojsc spac a dziecko samo sie wychowa a z internetem to nieporownywalnie gorzej jest
10. Mlodzi albo sie nasmiewaja z polskosci albo otwarcie ja opluwaja, wsrod mlodych oprocz malej mniejszosci osob ktora czuje sie polakami to nie ma zadnej glebszej tozsamosci narodowej a jedyne co nas spaja to akurat jezyk i jeden urzad skarbowy i nic wiecej
11. Dzietnosc w kraju na poziom 1,1 na kobiete w tym roku spadla, juz i tak importuja ludzi z zagranicy bo ani pieniadze za dziecko ani wysoki standard zycia nie przekonuje ludzi to nas spychaja bo my im nie starczamy bo chca wiecej pieniedzy z podatkow, we wroclawiu kazdy prawie dostawca jedzenia to albo hindus albo z okolicy, prawie kazdy budowlaniec to ukrainiec, na wroclawskim rynku nie wiem czy slysze wiecej ukrainskiego czy polskiego, jakies komitety do zwаlczania rаsizmu czy mowу niеnawisci jak z orwеlla bo co im moge zrobic? Nic, moge tylko im sluzyc i siedziec cicho. Wlasna opinia niezaleznie czy prawdziwa czy falszywa jest niewskazana wszedzie i nawet jak jestem w bledzie i ktos mi wytknie to nawet nie probuja wytlumaczyc dlaczego tylko 'to idz sie dowiedz', dziekuje
12. Dziewczyny sie zabawiaja i zadna nie wydaje sie umiec kochac albo reprezentuje nic swoja osoba, ja osobiscie sie poddalem nie chce mi sie bawic w to, kpina, poza tym na wioskach dziewczyn nie ma bo wszystkie leca jak cmy do lampy do duzych miast, mam kilku kolegow i zaden nie ma dziewczyny i nie probuja nawet, nie wiem nawet czy polowa w ogole chlopakow z mojego rocznika interesuje sie zwiazkami czy maja to gdzies
13. A rzadzacy to najlepsi - kopiuja wszystko co idzie z ameryki by walczyc ze zmyslonymi problemami ktorych u nas nie ma, a lokalne problemy zamiatane pod dywan albo tradycyjnie jak z wiek wiekow litania 'to poprzednia partia rzadzaca zrobila' jako wymowka niezaleznie kto rzadzi aby tylko nic nie robic i objadac sie za pieniadze ludzi dalej, wygrali 4 lata to co my mozemy zrobic? Nic. Moj glos nie ma znaczenia, czy to w urnie czy to wyjsc do ludzi. Ludzie nie chca dyskutowac bo oni juz wiedza wszystko i niemozliwe by ktos nie mial racji. A ze teraz nawet za wyrazanie zdania chca scigania z prokuratury to ludzie co chca kwestionowac czy obecny stan panstwa jest najlepszy sa sprzatani przez pоlityczne gеstapo bo za duzo mysla. Dzisiaj za niezgode z opiniami chca scigania prawnie jako zniewazenie. Caly swiat zaczyna sie krecic wokol narcyzow i nikt nie promuje skromnosci.
14. Panstwo co raz mocniej uzaleznia nas od siebie by wiezy miedzy rodzinami i spolecznosciami sie rozpadly bo jak ktos ceni swoja rodzine ponad panstwem to nie moze byc niewolnikiem panstwa. Sie mowi ze nie mozna byc dobrym sluga jak sie ma dwoch panow. No to sprzataja rodzine i wiezy spoleczne na rzecz swoja, niedofinansowanie instytucji kulturowych, nie widuje promocji kultury w ogole oprocz prywatnych imprez, ja sie egzaminow tak nie boje jak urzedu skarbowego.
Czarno to widze, a ze jeszcze jak dzieciaki dzisiaj zdrowie psychiczne maja rozwalone patrzac statystycznie to powodzenia swiatu
typie, to miedzy innymi dzieki UE jestesmy na tym poziomie na ktorym jesteśmy. Facet w filmie sam to pokazał
@@michamarkiewicz1642 UE nie ma ZADNEGO ZNACZENIA! Najwazniejsze jest to, abysmy mieli WLASNA WALUTE! Zobacz w Italii, Hiszpanii i Grecji na jakim "poziomie" sa dzieki tej "wspanialej" UE - a PRZEDE WSZYSTKIM DZIEKI "EURO"! Koszt zycia wzrosl o 350% w przciagu ostatnich 3 lat - PLACE o 2% ! W 2000ym roku - tuz po wprowadzeniu EURO byl IDENTYCZNY "SKOK" INFLACYJNY - 300% WZROST CEN - place pozostaly TE SAME!...a budzetu Wloch - DZISIAJ! - nie zatwierdza Parlament w Rzyme (nie decyduja sami Wlosi!) tylko BRUKSELA (jako "proxy" BERLINA!)....NAJLEPSZE JEST TO, ZE WCALE SIE Z TYM NIE KRYJA!
Chcesz taki sam SYF miec U NAS - w Polsce!?- dzieki jednemu rudemu kundlowi??? Chcesz aby o naszej polityce monetarnej , FISKALNEJ i BUDZETOWEJ DECYDOWAL "DEUTSCHE BANK" TAK JAK W ITALII I GRECJI???
...a teraz nie mam czasu na "gadki" - jak chcesz abym ci opisal jak Unia zlamala wloski przemysl samochodowy (FIAT-IVECO/LANCIA/ALFA ROMEO!) na korzysc NIEMIECKIEGO (ergo: VOLSKWAGEN/MERCEDES-BENZ/BMW) to ci moge to opowiedziec - ALE PO 11-TEJ!
Teraz wracam dopiero do domu po pracy!
@@2serveand2protect nie ma znaczenia? Dostęp do jednolitego rynku, ktory jest najwiekszym atutem ue, że az taka norwegia płaci do kasy ue zeby miec dostep, to nic takiego? Albo dopłaty z funduszy, bez ktoryxch wczesniej wszystko wygladało jak po apokalipsie?
Zastanawiajace jest to że kraje z naszego regionu, ktore startowały z podobnego poziomu, rozwineły sie inaczek: polska litwa lotwa i estonia rozwineły sie o wiele barziej po przystapieniu do tej złej łunii. Białoruś i ukraina za to rozkwitły. Ba nawet rosja ma od kilkunastu lat nizsze pkb per capita niz polska. Tak sie konczy oligarchizacja gospodarki. Same reformy ustrojowo prawne i gospodarcze, czyli wolny rynek, były bardziej warte dla naszego rozwoju niż dopłaty, fundusze czy brak ceł.
Tylko nie wyjezdzaj mi ze szwajcaria czy norwegia: to sa kraje o diametralnie innej sytuacji wejsciowej o innej historii. To nie przez ich terytorium przetoczyło sie wiele frontów 2 wojen swiatowych że rzesze ludzi musiały zaczynac od zera. I nie oni dostali sie pod władanie ruskich komunistów
@@michamarkiewicz1642 ???
Jaka "SZWAJCARIA" ???
Ani "SZWAJCARIA" ani "NORWEGIA" nie MAJA EURO! Szwajcaria ma wlasne franki a Norwegia "KRONY"! XD :D Dlatego moga prowadzic wlasna polityke monetarna i fiskalna!
Po drugie! - ja pod komuna sie synek urodzilem- w Katowicach - wiec mnie nie "pouczaj" o tych czasach. "Pancry na Wujek" musialem ogladac, gdy mialem lat SZESC.
Co ty myslisz ze ja POLSKI NIE ZNAM?? :D
...a co do reszty! - doplaty mozemy sobie spokojnie trzymac - problemem nie sa "doplaty", ktòre i tak jedyne co naprawde trzymaja "w porzadku" to infrastruktury dla niemieckich i francuskich firm. Dostaja za to takie obnizki na podatkach dla ICH wyrobòw,, ze czesto ta ròznica (kiedy sprowadzaja z powrotem ich towary WYRABIANE w Polsce), nie maja w praktyce konkurencji - i czesto tylko to ich trzyma z glowa "ponad woda". Dlatego takze nie chca aby POLSKIE produkty (przez POLSKIE firmy wyrabiane) NIE ROBILY IM KONKURENCJI NA ZACHODZIE! Ty myslisz ze dla kogo ja pracuje i nie ogladam tego ??...CODZIENNIE?? :D
Problem nie jest w ich "wspanialomyslnosci", ktòra swieci tylko wtedy kiedy VW albo MAPEI JEST TO WYGODNE! Kiedy Polska zaczyna myslec zbyt "jednostkowo" i "egoistycznie" jak na ich "kolektyw" to - nagle! - GASNIE a w ich "instytucjach" - WTEDY! - mowa nawet (otwarcie) O "ZAGLODZENIU POLSKI NA SMIERC"! (i to po niemiecku!).
Kiedy polskie firmy i polski personel potrzebuje "know-how" i INFORMACJI - w szczegòlnosci do produkcji komponentòw high-tech! ...WTEDY odwracaja sie plecami! :D Moge z tym walczyc, tylko dlatego za znam jezyki! ...a i tak musze uwazac CODZIENNIE na to, co mòwie!
Taka jest ich "szczodrosc" wiec nie rozsmieszaj mnie, facet!
PRAWDZIWYM PROBLEMEM JEST UWAZANIE NA TO ABY POLSKA NIE WPROWADZILA (POD ICH NACISKIEM!) EURO - bo WTEDY dopiero twoja "ukochana unia" beda decydowac nawet o tym ile mozesz wydawac na twoja wlasna obrone!
Polnad was never a part of USSR!!!
Dude, There are some many mistakes about Poland's history and economy, ofc it's very interesting, but do better research. Poland had a recession in 2020 for example. Poland has strong army, but absolutely not the biggest in the EU
not even ten seconds into a video lol
And it's 2024 and some people in Poland are willing to risk it all for a conflict with Russia.
7:50 górnictwo niestety jest dotowane do tej chwili i wyrwało z budżetu miliardy złotych które można było wydać na rozwój kraju.
7:50 mining is unfortunately subsidised to the moment and has snatched billions and billions of zlotys from the budget that could have been spent on developing the country.
Like others have said, it wasn't poor for centuries, and every country has been invaded, so that stuff needs to stop, like that it's just happened to them and nobody else very much is not true. Poland had to put the country back together after over a hundred years of being taken over, it's going to take time and they were doing very good considering the challenges they were having to deal with, let along Germany and the USSR next to them.
Videos like this are so odd, coz literally none of my friends or other Polish ppl Ive ever spoke to belive that. We still live in conviction that we are a developing country at best, and in our nature complaining is so deeply rooted that even if we really become a strong economy one day we will still think that we are poor periphery of Europe, that every other country is against us (except Visegrad group) and our gouvernemnt suck 😕
Poland citizens becoming richer then people in the UK is quite ironic, especially looking back at brexit.
Pamiętam jak nas na zbieranie ziemniaków zabierali. Sądzę, że to było akurat bardzo dobre - uczyło pokory i szacunku wobec rolników.
Transfer of funds from European Union was 1-2% of Polands GDP per year for 20 years. Flood of funds🤣
Ye its always funny when somebody says how much money Poland received from EU and nobody says that Poland received less money in 20 years combined from EU funds than Russia received in 1 year from selling their gas and oil to EU.
In my opinion the risk middle income trap situation in Poland is mainly from job market, for quite long time now there is not enough people for work so labour intensive, low profit, not complicated industries are already being slowly pushed out of country for years, but more sofisticated buisnesess remain. Household average debt fallen down in last 3 years, most population living in theyr own property, usualy already paid, people seem to be having more money for investment in life. There is big improvement in energetic transfromation last decade despite complications in politics of trade of carbohydrates in the world. At internal country market we have plenty of healthy succesfull companies, they will of course never catch western concerns. I believe real problem is we would need much more people for work for more real economic development, and with lower salaries than other developed countries it might be difficult to get them imigrating. There are plenty of new warehouses and factories every corner but everything seems to be understaffed already compared to west.
We show on and on as Poles that we can and boy we will protect every centimeter of our land.