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Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue
This is just utter nonsense. The reason poor people in Eastern Europe are still poor is because of corrupt former Communist party members keeping everything for themselves.
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I hate to burst your bubble of ignorance, but that is not true. In communist Poland there was full employment, a health service, free education and culture.
Neo liberal advisers led the conversion to capitalism, this resulted in the closure of the Gdansk Shipyards, The coal mining industry, The steel industry, the textile industry of Lodz, The Polish cinemas were sold to the Americans etc etc...
There is a small goup now of very rich Poles but the vast majority very poor, even after 20 years of capitalism. In rural Poland there is no work and whereas before there was migration to the towns, people seek work abroad.