POLAND: from COMMUNISM to CAPITALISM in just a few WEEKS - VisualPolitik EN
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Poland is experiencing the best era in its history. Since 1989, when it became the first country in the world to completely abandon communism, Poland has experienced an economic miracle. Since then the size of its economy has increased eightfold and all indicators have improved almost miraculously.
In fact, 1991 was the last strictly bad year for the Polish economy until the arrival of the coronavirus. While there have been many ups and downs along the way in the rest of Europe, since 1992 the Polish economy has grown each and every year at an annual average of over 4%. And now the impact of COVID-19 is also being reduced.
However, in 1989 the situation in Poland was very different: at that time the lack of basic products was the norm, Poles had to stand in long and tedious queues to fill their pantries and the crisis the country was going through seemed eternal. Almost 45 years of Soviet rule had destroyed the Polish economy. But from 1989, everything changed and it changed very quickly. The question we investigate is, how did Poland manage to escape from communism? How did it go from being a practically bankrupt country to an economic shining light? In this video we tell you all the details about one of the most incredible political and economic transitions we have ever witnessed.
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I went to Poland once, got lost and was guided by a old lady who didn’t even speak English how to go where I wanted via hand signs. I got to say Polish people are really nice and friendly. All the best to them!
it could be so easy . ALL PEAOPLE ARE NICE , ALL AROUND THE WORLD
I'm not surprised, the poles have been coming to ireland for years and they're some of the hardest working people I've ever seen, some of the nicest too, I've a lot of respect for them and I'm happy to see their country is thriving.
Thanks Lad!
Nice to read some good words. Greetings from Kraków!
We have same feeling for ukrainians.
@ElGovanni It is exactly the same scenario. Polish -> Ireland, U.K., Spain, Italy, Greece in 2004; Ukrainians -> Poland and in future Germany, Netherlands in the present times. Poland is just a stop for Ukrainians. Many will leave Poland when Germany will anounce abolition in work visa system.
@Mod Ukrainians won't work in Germany because there are more similar to our culture
Glad for my Slavic Brothers, Polish people are hard working people.Bravo Poljaci
Wish you a stable government and a quick accession to the EU!
For once neighbouring Germany was an advantage for Poland
True, Germany is our biggest business partner so far.
Really? So you neighbor killed your family and robbed you but you happy he's there so you can benefit from he's riches? What a horrible subservient mentality.
@@jankowalski6338 dude, the war ended 76 years ago. that's like saying a rival family killed and robbed members of your family 76 years ago. Don't be stuck in the past, it's time to move on.
@@Dslayer5511 dude, my grandma is still alive. Dude paying attention to history and describing reality is not "living in the past".
@@jankowalski6338 76 years ago is the past. Whether your grandma is still alive or not is irrelevant, it doesn't change the definition of "past". The Germany of the past raped my country twice (first and second WW). Being bitter about this won't change anything. There is no productivity in it, there is nothing to gain from being bitter. It's better to accept what happened and learn from it to not have it happen again. What's the alternative? start a war with Germany to avenge fallen friends/family? Stop trading with Germany? The cons wouldn't be worth the pros. Peaceful trade and getting over the past is the most beneficial thing for all of us.
Poland became a rich country because capitalism and hard working society. People in Poland constantly feel need for making progress. That's why Poland looks so modern, private properties are in great condition, economy is thriving, infrastructure represents the highest european level. I am really not suprised that Poland achived a high standards of living within such a short period of time.
They were literally doomed to succeed and now they can be an inspiration for others.
Greetings from a humble Dutch guy!
More like thanks to EU
@@Feffdc Poland is booming since 1989. EU is thieving Poland.
@@Feffdc The EU is going against the Visegrád Group (which Poland is a part of). Despite the EU getting in Poland's way - Poland thrives!
Polish people are very well organised.
Unfortunately a lot of what you said is a misconception. Same as the title of this movie. Capitalism wasn't introduced in Poland 'just a few weeks'. Polish communists realised that communism had been failing, already back in late 1970s. They also realised that because built in fundamental misconceptions, there is no reform that could make it work, so Piotr Jaroszewicz prepared a plan of 'Finlandisation of Poland', which basically meant copying the socio-economic system of Finland and selling it to the communist party as an economically efficient way to achieve goals originally intended by communism. He did not manage to push this idea forward because the communist party got rid of him, and in 1981 both him and the first secretary Edward Gierek were imprisoned by general Wojciech Jaruzelski. Jaruzelski effectively became almost a dictator and originally believed he can get the country working just through military order, but it didn't work, so Jaruzelski fortunately started studying economny which included reading books which were forbidden in Poland back then, and got heavily influenced by the Austrian School of economy. He then gave a green light to professor Messner, and after him Rakowski, to introduce large free market reforms already in the 1980s. The peak of that was the Wilczek's Bill, which was a bill on opening private businesses. The bill was famous for being bringing libertarian/radical capitalist ideals to life and being so short the whole text was just one page long and allowed any kind of business to be started a run after a registering procedure which would take like a minute, and the only things forbidden without concession were stuff like production pharmaceuticals, production and sales of firearms or radioactive materials. When communism officially ended, these radical capitalist laws had been in force for a few years already, and when Jaruzelski voluntarily resigned and allowed for democratic elections, every single government since would actually only introduce further regulations and new taxes, going away from that radical XIXth century style capitalism back towards socialism and state economy. By now there are over 30 different taxes and about 46 different fees that had to paid to the country, and a big program of banking and industry nationalisation is being done. The result is, if you go to a shop in Poland, prices in Poland are effectively higher than those in the UK, but Poles earn about 4 times less than Britons on average. Just a year ago in Poland I had my own business which was giving me income equal to arythmetic average of Polish salary, so I was earning a lot more than many people but I couldn't afford a mortgage, a new car or even a new computer. I ended up running away because I was struggling already before the Coronacrisis, and during that I lost most of my clients most of my income and government didn't help. 5000 Poles commits suicides each year, and police officers it must be an underestimated number because families often refuse to accept that their family member commited a suicide, so they write different things in the reports, like 'fatal accident' or 'accidental overdose of medicine'.
Been to Poland a few times. I thought I would find a poor country, but I was surprised with their level of development.
unfortunately old stereotypes and prejudices still prevails, despite the fact that the iron curtain fell over 30 years ago. go to Slovakia, Romania or even Middle East or Africa and I guess you'll be surprised too. time goes by and societies and countries do change, although some people think that postcommunist countries are destined to be poor and undeveloped, but it doesn't work that way. one just have to not believe what he/she sees or hears in the mainstream media and have some inner curiosity.
Well, Poland is a country which is richer than Brazil, that's for sure...
@@blase777 30 years is a short period of time, so the amount of progress such a poor country made in such a short period of time is what is surprising.
Instead if being so defensive, take it as a compliment that he was surprised by the impressive amount of development in only a few decades.
@@badluck5647 The development would have been much larger, had general Jaruzelski decided to keep power in his hands instead of introducing democracy and resigning. Jaruzelski was a faithful communist, but he was also a great self-learned and in mid-80s he realised that communism doesn't work, and can't work, and introduced economic reforms in style of XIXth century US capitalism. After he resigned, democratic governments only complicated the law, introduced more taxes, more handouts and so on. Rumor says that when Jaruzelski was dying, he said that he regretted not wipeing out socialism entirely. If he was younger and bolder, by now you'd probably see Poland having zero state companies, trains going at 400kph, and plenty of Polish companies making their own computer systems, cars, and fancy electronics. We had lots of great engineers who could supply anything, only we couldn't invest in their talents because all was eaten by taxes spent on overgrown administration and social handouts.
Thomas Gleri I can’t completely disagree, but that’s a little too general as some African countries (South Africa, Egypt, Morocco Kenya, Rwanda) are a lot more developed than other African countries like South Sudan, Somalia, The DRC. In conclusion at least not all African countries are still extremely underdeveloped. 😅
Poland is not new germany. Poland is new Poland.
Poland is an amazing nation. It is, without a doubt, the nation in Europe with the brightest future. Best of wishes to Poland from your former Warsaw Pact neighbor - Bulgaria!
Please change your avatar. Cheers from Poland.
@@adamkwalczyk No.
So bright that I can't see it!
@@lechwaesa9176 complaining is aPolish national sport.
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 😂
Polish people are honest and hard working people I have ever seen. It's true their economy is boosting every year, the poles who left the country in search of a good life are now coming back to Poland. This shows country is doing well on grounds.
Me: *How Poland got rich?*
Poland: *fast!*
true, true!
+1
Oh yeah! Probably that's why people are leaving the country in order to earn money so much and most of the young generation is afraid of raising their kids in here!
@@lechwaesa9176 Yeah 2 milions left Poland almost milion came back. And Poland took 2 milion of ukrainians.
@@zepter00 and they are all welcome.
The Polish people are honestly due a golden age at this point.
they had theirs with the polish lithuanian common wealth, but yes there is a lot of potential
Poland has suffered a lot in recent history, so it great to hear how the country has been prospering in these past decades.
Me a Pole: clicks faster than Poland abandoned communism*
hello from brazil ,it's incredible poland's progress , their economy is 8x bigger than in 1989 . Keep up the good work
Or polish army abandoned the west front to Blitzkrieg
I mean, if you waited a couple of weeks to click, you reaction time might be slightly suboptimal 😂
@@lughmanwatandust1020 Come back here in a month then.
BTW. There was not only western, but also eastern front with Soviets.
@@Pandzikizlasu80 leave this cold hearted bastard on his own😂😂🤙
He be trippin😂
Poland is a wonderful country and Polish people are some of the best you could hope to meet. We've had many thousands in Ireland over the last 17 years or so. More than welcome. 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇱
I have alwyes said thats poland is just Like Iraq its the country is alwyes invaded and sometimes betrayed by there neboughris and had a period of comunism and I hope that Iraq will recover like our Brothers in Poland❤
Well , wat we can say , good luck Iraq (in Polish we say Irak) in quick and succesfull recovery . Best wishes from Poland :) . Btw small question , how things in Iraq are doing these days ?
@@SillyUwUBilly well thank you alot and Iraqi people are dying to have change the taxses have been rasied with the wekaeking of our currincy its hard to live but harder to have change.
And in Iraqi we say (Polanda)❤
@@aliahmedwadi5849 lol
Not really bro. Poland has over 1000 years of history and once was dominant superpower in this part of Europe for over 300 years,stretching its borders almost to Moscow on the east and to Black Sea on the south.
@@werthor7083 yes i know about the great time of Poland_Lithunain comenwleath and i know how they reached mosco and was streacting from Crimea to baltic but im talking about the modertimes of our countries in the 20 century.❤
it's incredible poland's progress , their economy is 8x bigger than in 1989 . Keep up the good work
But Polen still can't into space.
@@boulderbash19700209 Poland was already in space you stupid.
Unfortunately this film has some misconceptions including the title and doesn't give justice to the tragic situation of Poland in the last few years, when prices went up like 200% Capitalism wasn't introduced in Poland 'just a few weeks'. Polish communists realised that communism had been failing, already back in late 1970s. They also realised that because built in fundamental misconceptions, there is no reform that could make it work, so Piotr Jaroszewicz prepared a plan of 'Finlandisation of Poland', which basically meant copying the socio-economic system of Finland and selling it to the communist party as an economically efficient way to achieve goals originally intended by communism. He did not manage to push this idea forward because the communist party got rid of him, and in 1981 both him and the first secretary Edward Gierek were imprisoned by general Wojciech Jaruzelski. Jaruzelski effectively became almost a dictator and originally believed he can get the country working just through military order, but it didn't work, so Jaruzelski fortunately started studying economny which included reading books which were forbidden in Poland back then, and got heavily influenced by the Austrian School of economy. He then gave a green light to professor Messner, and after him Rakowski, to introduce large free market reforms already in the 1980s. The peak of that was the Wilczek's Bill, which was a bill on opening private businesses. The bill was famous for being bringing libertarian/radical capitalist ideals to life and being so short the whole text was just one page long and allowed any kind of business to be started a run after a registering procedure which would take like a minute, and the only things forbidden without concession were stuff like production pharmaceuticals, production and sales of firearms or radioactive materials. When communism officially ended, these radical capitalist laws had been in force for a few years already, and when Jaruzelski voluntarily resigned and allowed for democratic elections, every single government since would actually only introduce further regulations and new taxes, going away from that radical XIXth century style capitalism back towards socialism and state economy. By now there are over 30 different taxes and about 46 different fees that had to paid to the country, and a big program of banking and industry nationalisation is being done. The result is, if you go to a shop in Poland, prices in Poland are effectively higher than those in the UK, but Poles earn about 4 times less than Britons on average. Just a year ago in Poland I had my own business which was giving me income equal to arythmetic average of Polish salary, so I was earning a lot more than many people but I couldn't afford a mortgage, a new car or even a new computer. I ended up running away because I was struggling already before the Coronacrisis, and during that I lost most of my clients most of my income and government didn't help. 5000 Poles commits suicides each year, and police officers it must be an underestimated number because families often refuse to accept that their family member commited a suicide, so they write different things in the reports, like 'fatal accident' or 'accidental overdose of medicine'.
Yes, but it started from a very low level, so even an 8x increase wasn't enough to catch up to the West.
@@SparrowNoblePoland dlaczego tak usilnie spamujesz swój wlasny kraj? Chcesz wszystkim wmówić, że jest tak źle tylko dlatego, że Tobie sie nie udalo w zyciu? Jak tam na rynku politologii?Twój nick wskazuje, że wróbel sra we własne gniazdo lol
I'm in New Zealand and I remember very well the days of "Solidarity" and Lech Walesa in the late 1980s! This is an **excellent** video. It should be shown to every airheaded Western university student who thinks that socialism/communism is great.
Well I have some sad new for u then. It is now known nearly for sure that he was SB (political special force in communist Poland) puppet.
@@SillyUwUBilly Source please. The current government says so and still fails to provide reliable source, because he probably... was not!
@@mw1508 Ale mogę napisać do pani po Polsku ?
@@SillyUwUBilly - Ah. I wasn't aware of that, Polandball. Thanks for that.
@@SillyUwUBilly sorry, that's right and Jaroslaw Kaczynski was the one only leader who has brought the communist system down, people in New Zealand need to know the right true only
Other video idea: Poland: From coal to nuclear in just a few years.
At the moment Poland doesn't have any nuclear plants working, there was one started in żarnowiec but it was stopped and never completed.
Coal is still the largest source of energy in Poland.
@@mr_sheen_asg If they take global warming seriosly they will take the entry to nuclear energy seriosly. There are plans to build 6 new reactors. I believe with climate change becoming more serious they will work harder.
Pressure from EU to decarbonize combined with relative insufficiency of renewables (zero production on cold, winter night when wind doesnt blow) practically ensure that by 2050 and possibly earlier Poland will have to rely on nuclear power, possibly even fusion power if tech advances quickly enough.
@@ewok40k
Fusion has side effects just like fission. It is no panacea. Gamma rays, other radiations. Essentially, you have a sun on the earth.
I say this not to impede progress, but to help it. Fission nuclear (what we have now) is the best baseload power we have, unless you live near a river (hydroelectric) or above plate or other volcanically active areas (geothermal).
Coal is still, sadly, going strong in Poland
You should make more videos about all nations from Iron Curtain which goes from communism to capitalism!!!Great video about a great nation,Poland!!!🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🤝🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
It would be interesting to compare those who did the transition to capitalism well like Poland and those like who did it poorly like Russia.
Interesting breakdown despite some simplifications! Thank you for the content!
@Stefan Tompson Finally someone have shown what had to be showned 16 years ago.
It would be nice to cover PiS takeover of all state owned Institutions and Companies in between 2015 - present.
Love you broski, keep up you the good work!
@@liquidpodcast It would be even better to see how post communists have established their power in Poland after 1989. Taking over all institutions including media and the judiciary.
@@matkwiatkowski1400 ✌️
I am a Polish fanboy at the age of 70
Maybe it is a story worth of sharing
Congrats Poland. 🇵🇱
I'm really happy that Poland is doing so well, my country found itself in the same position after the fall of communism, but unfortunately did not manage the situation so well.
Where are you from
The thing is Communism may have shaped the way Polish people are, the caring and hardworking. My grandfather was fond of Communism in Poland but I asked him before he died when he came to England if that was the case?? He said it was only temporary after the war and he met my grandmother and started a family in England. One of the things with this progression is that it is good but let's hope Poland doesn't become another England with a nasty bitter Conservative government which reflects the people of Southern England. Greed and selfishness exploded under the Thatcherite government and we have had the same crap since 2010 again. People know the price of everything and the values of nothing.
And Long Live Poland, the bravest of all European people
Yea , all thought this bravery had cost us so much over all those years that I am wondering if we shouldn't have been more quiet.
@@SillyUwUBilly how to ruin a good comment , episode 1
@@m4rt1nDRK That comment was not good a all, it's just a comment based on a narcissistic idea due to the lack of identity of the country and an attempt to overcome insecurities. It's like if a german was saying that the germans were the most peaceful of all European people. We all know that's completely Bullshit.
@@Matt-fu9wx Poland and Poles lack of national identity?
Are you serious?
@@r.guerreiro140 yes.
if I am wrong then what makes them the bravest of all europeans?
you've completely butchered the polish names, but other than that - good job
Thumbs up 🤣😂
Not to mention pronunciation of "we have none " - its not pronounced Nie Mah, but more like "Nyeah Ma "
Yeh, it's actually a bit pathetic that they couldn't be bothered to check pronunciation of such important figures as Balcerowicz (they use 3 different incorrect versions) and Mazowiecki. Would you butcher name of French PM too? Probably not
@@wojteks4712 its a bit pathetic that your bitching about it. You obviously understand what he is saying and what he means so why does it matter?
@@wojteks4712 And yet "Balserowitz" is nothing compared to "Mazowikee". Dafuq happened there...
I remember the biggest changes happening in 1992-1994 - every year I would go there for a month in the summer. First time I got there in 1991, everything was sooty and gray, there were three types of cars, and the clothing other kids wore were not of good quality. By 1994, (at least in Warsaw), telco and internet infrastructure exploded, you could buy Western music at Empik (Zaiks labels, I still have Nirvana and Soundgarden albums from Poland purchased at a third of the cost of what they went for in Canada) and there were tons of imported cars. IIRC Polonez itself got a facelift. The change to me as a kid was striking, and this continued until I last routinely visited at 14 in 1996. When I went back in 2005, I could not even recognize it - the last of the bullet ridden buildings were repainted nicely, the air and rivers were cleaner, people seemed much better off, there were more than 3 channels on TV (lol). I tend to return every 2-3 years between 2008 and 2019 and there are almost no traces of the PRL left to be seen.
Poland will Always stand with Taiwan, always with HK, always with Vietnam. Always against CCP regime!
Poland is the nation the rest of the world should follow!
I can agree, that makes me more like Poland. 🇵🇱
Idk why most East Asians(What I know which doesn't think about 🇵🇱(Polska/Poland): Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, and Japan, etc) don't really care about Poland. .w.
Are you surprised? Who'd know more about communist oppression?
We stand with the Republic of China! Kits Taiwan do you politically illiterate)
My deepest respect and kudos to the polish people. They've saved their country valiantly from the claws of communism.
A teraz znów musimy go ocalić tylko ze tym razem przed muslimizacją Polski🤔
@@Bakambol Had to Google Translate your answer. Just make sure you reproduce more than any of the current Muslim minorities you may have on your country. Hell, import catholic immigrants.
In Civilzation 5 Poland's unique ability allows them to progress faster than normal with their Social Policies. Makes sense
They didn't have even one turn of anarchy when they switched ideologies! I think they're using some kinda mod....🤔🤔
@@tylor2765 It is how the Golden Liberty ability works in the real world.
Polish airforce fought the nazi air attack on London in the 40s.
@elf twentyfive Nah we had enough British troops and the technology to fight off the Germans. Not to mention a stronger navy.
I have a Polish friend whose mother lived in Communist Poland, although his father grew up in Nigeria, which wouldn’t have been much better.
Been to ploand. Super contrty. Two weeks there in June 2004. One of the best places I have ever been to.
In Ukraine we have almost the same situation back in 1991.
But in Ukraine such market reforms failed. Instead, we have an oligarch class, that enriched themselves by buying government-owned factories for lower than average price, run them for 3-5-10 years, and then bankrupt them. Virtually all coal, metal, chemical industries are under oligarchs rule now.
Yes, there are many good changes: in big cities are many new jobs: service, tech/IT, design/fashion. But in rural areas and small cities there are little opportunities.
Under Soviet rule there were many factories and government run farms, but with independence most factories closed, government run farms all closed, and very little created since that.
I noticed Allot of Israel hi tech companies lately use workers in Ukraine,in all western countries you have specific laws regulating business what they can or can not do,laws against monopolies that government can break them all this should be implemented.
Yep, none of the 3 big Slavs followed the Polish example... unfortunately Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have failed to become somewhat alike Poland after the collapse of the USSR.
@@fvo911 in Belarus they tried to create like new USSR, where government own a great part of the economy, and they are pretty good at it.
In Ukraine, before belarusian protests, the most liked politician in the world was Alexander Lukashenko (65-70% approval). I am from Western Ukraine, where >95% are against USSR, but many have nostalgia about manufacturing jobs, about level of education (even hard core nationalist acknowledge that during USSR period it was better), about stability. At the same time people hate queues, deficits, censorship, russification.
Because market reforms failed in Ukraine/Russia/Belarus, there are strong nostalgia of USSR.
Something like nostalgia of good times in the Rust Belt.
@@yakov95000 in theory - yes. In reality - i don't think so.
The richest person in Ukraine, Rinat Ahmetov, own 70% of coal and 90% of metal production.
He simply bought politicians:
1)Viktor Yanukovich was basically his president (Ahmetov was the main sponsor of Party of Regions)
2)During Poroshenko years was implemented "Rotterdam+" scheme (Ahmetov owned power stations bought coal from Ahmetov owned mines by prices like in Rotterdam. In reality it was in 2,5-3,5 cheaper. The difference was paid by raising price on electricity for people)
3) During Zelensky we have prime minister, who worked in DTEK (Ahmetov company) and minister of electricity from DTEK too.
As a result, during corona-crisis they virtually stopped nuclear power plants (that are government owned) in order to boost coal power plants. Also we have the highest price for green power in the world (≈70% of the green energy produced by DTEK too). And no, they are not thinking about global warming, only about money.
Also, in 2019 elections Ahmetov directly finance 2 parties: Opposition Block (another pro-Russian party with mostly pro-Ahmetov politicians) and Radical Party (that hates Russia, are socially conservative, nationalist, but center-left, mostly populist, on the economy.
Same in Romania.
That was unexpected, I'm digging in my Spark cluster, then I checked what is new on YT and this popped up. Greetings from Kraków! I was born in 1977 so my life covered this period of history. What really economically supported my country was to become an UE member. At that time (2004) I was working as a programmer in Hamburg in Germany. I remember there was a party on the central square to celebrate the extension. What I can attest to is that the economy started to grow rapidly after joining the UE. Before the country was really poor, gray, few cars, lots of buildings in need of renovation. What I miss from this time is the nature, it played much more significant role in my life, everybody was slim too.
Poland has been developing continuously since 1989, not only since its accession to the EU.
@@rupert2019 Of course, but access to the common UE market gave us quite huge boost.
@You Kou In 2021, the number of cities in Poland is 954. How many of them are looking bad? If you can't estimate the number, why write such generalities? There are such cities everywhere, or rather their fragments. And what do liberals have to do with it? Since when do political views influence the appearance of a city? After all, mayors and councilors change every few years.
@You Kou Yes, I am a Pole, so I see more advantages of my country. Bytom is a mining town, so what should it look like? It is enough to look at other similar cities, e.g. in Great Britain. Łódź was a city where the tailoring and textile industries were present. The industry has collapsed. But the manufacture looks nice, so does the new railway station, sports hall, stadium, etc. And Wrocław, in my opinion, looks much better than Kraków. Small towns and their architecture are easier to care for than large ones.
@You Kou Maybe You are failed and your country.. In every city in the world you can find bad places. The weather also didnt helped. Tourists from other countries have very good opinion about Wrocław.
All hail the great Leshnek Balgorynts!
Seriously, you can ask Google Translate to read out Polish to you, it does a good job. Or, if you are in the UK, just ask your barrista.
Balcerowicz był idiotą a cała ta dekomunizacja to jakaś katastrofa!
Pierwszym prezydentem został Generał odpowiadający za stan wojenny, terapia szokowa doprowadziła do biedy milionów Polaków a od 95 rządzili komuniści, a na deser do teraz mamy komunistycznych szpiegów w sądach i kościołach.
The way he pronounced "Nie Ma" really hurt me lol
Investing in crypto is the only big chance of making money
I wanted to trade Crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price
That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr Frank Robin
Tbh i think he was thinking about "ni ma" or "ni mo" (which are regional versions)
@@ThePhunkyPhunky To me it seemed as if he was pronouncing "nie ma" the german way, nie (never) in german is pronounced like "nee"
Please do a video on South Africa splitting apart
Like
Zululans,Vrystaat,Cape of good hope and xhosaland
Next topic should be is China planning an invasion of Taiwan? This video does a pretty good job analysing the renewed tensions between Taiwan and China: th-cam.com/video/yI0foMtF_oU/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=MyTake
No fucking not, let's pretend that everything is okay and that we love each other
@@lumko9719 lol
@
Whatifalthist made a video called "5 Countries that will Collapse by 2040." - you may try to guess at least one of the five ;) th-cam.com/video/N3bEVlNcpq0/w-d-xo.html
@@lumko9719 lmao
Well, I knew Poland reached very high standards some time ago but what I didn't know ws that they did it so quick
I don't really know why you foreign people always say that "now Poland has the best time in its history". It' simply not true. It may be the best in like 200-300 years but this country used to be one of the most important countries in Europe once covering most of the CEE from Baltic to Black See...
Perhaps territorially that was true, but I'm sure the living conditions then for the majority of people were poor..
Love My Brothers Poland 🙏🏻🍃♥️🤝♥️🍃🙏🏻
And they love You
@@les5054 Hello my beautiful friend
@?? Olá amigo sou do Brazil e você?
🍃♥️🇧🇷
Fellow polish friends watch out for Mother Russia and his Czar Vladmir Putin I.
The trolls and bots aren't going to like this...
Russia is like our handicaped, vulgar cousin. Big, stupid, poor, aggressive and full of sh&t.
But still... it's our cousin.
It's complicated relation. 😉
Russia is not the mother. Poland exists longer than Russia.
NEVER NO MORE
Because we don't beg for freedom we fight for it 👍
Amen. Dobra robota. From USA, this is the only way you will keep it.
My step dad was from Poland and me, him, and my mom went to Poland many times it’s a beautiful country and nice people!
Great video! Happy New Year guys; stay healthy and safe!
Very good analysis! When do we get one for Portugal?
Judging from the thumbnail, I assume it was Ron Swanson’s intervention.
Interesting. I went to do some quick research on their human rights, "happiness" index, and standard of living, and Poland looks like it's doing decently in all those areas as well. Not perfect, but no country is. I hope they stay on track!
Our PISA scores are also pretty good
*suicide rate for 100k people blocks your path*
@@Foczo neoliberalism kills
Hehehe "happiness" index. Poland never gonna reaches high score in this index, because our national sport is complaining about our country.
GREAT JOB, POLAND!!! You defeated evil communism. We Vietnamese must learn and copy you so we can be free of this red dictatorship, too!! Please help us. Thank you.
We have many Vietnamese people in Poland, hopefully there will be close cooperation both economical and political.
@@Olejnick Thank you Polska and Polski people for opening your doors to us Viets. Vietnam has be having very good relationship with all the Slavic nations for the past 75 years and we wish to continue this special bond.
Polish people are always welcomed to Vietnam, especially when you can encourage us to overthrow the hated communist dictators still in power. Please come to Vietnam and help us do the same thing which you did 25 years ago. Thank you, kind Polish brothers and sisters.
Always with Taiwan, always with HK, always with Vietnam. Always against ccp regime!
@@guciochris5297 Thank you for your help. The whole world must unite to kill evil china forever.
Evil china = the new Nazi Germany of the world that must be totally destroyed
Good work, Poles! You did the total opposite of us Croats. Since Yugoslavia was the most successful communist country that introduced market socialism decades before China, after it's collapse we were much more developed than you. Now it's completely opposite - we are basically where we were 30 years ago and your economy increased 8x.
I wish you(goslavians) would be united again.
6:49 hey! Vsauce here. Today we transform Poland's economy!
Great episode!
1:35 That's the material from communist times from FSO car factory , while making FSO Polonez (known as Borewicz).
The US banning Russian Russian vodka is a W everywhere I go that sells liquor I'm seeing more and more polish vodka for sale and as a polish-American this makes me extremely happy, I hope to visit poland soon and enjoy my heritage, but I will say as a native English speaker polish is a hard language to learn lol
Polska wódka lepsza bracie💪🇵🇱Powodzenia z językiem Polskim😂
That graph of Poland gdp vs Germany/Denmark was super misleading
Very interesting
Great material! Ofc you are welcome to visit Poland ;)
Awww.. All the Polish names so beautifully mamed.. 😄
Besides the occasional comparison of the current government to a mafia, I’ve never heard my Polish friends say they didn’t like the place. Honestly kinda want to visit at some point
Current government is a mix of mafia, Genghis Khan's horde and cancer.
But aside of that shit Poland is superb.
current Polish gov is OK
@@wiktormigaszewski8684 Only for narrow minded morons with iq around ant level, without any abilities to understand a cause and effect relationship in reality.
@@wiktormigaszewski8684
I dont agree with what they doing with this country, but that's democracy its ok. However what they did to media its just disgusting. Their last actions seems like they just want to split poles old-young generation. Sad.
@@misinnio oh, dividing society with media to achieve political goals? i have a piece of info for you - it was not invented 5 years ago, but 150
Nice!
YEAH!! Goodluck👍 Poland
And the Crurruption begins...
Question for the Poles, do you invest in the Poland publicly traded companies thought the Warsaw stock exchange? Is investing in equities popular in Poland/ on the rise or is the pension reform set very good?
I personally invest a lot, however an average Pole is not. This year brought huge surge in number of opened trading accounts, due to massive QE and low interest rates so the situation changes rapidly. Plus every employee now has an option to save money in IKZE (tax free investment accounts). And GPW is by far the largest Stock Exchange in Central Europe with many interesting companies to invest in
Reversal of Pension funds reform hit Warsaw Stock Exchange hard but now it's good time to invest again.
You are butchering their names.
Tadeost Mazołiki XD
Ohh yeah the names where mercilessly slaughtered w/o mercy :D
@@ExcessumGaming it’s not easy to pronounce polish name, I have experienced as an African
It'll break his tongue.
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I still remember 1989, when everything changed. It was almost like I awoke in completely different world.
Great show; clear, sharp, vocal tone great... great content. Kudos. OK, so how do we contrast with current left trends in America?
Greetings from Pakistan,i hope that poland becomes on par with germany economically and politically.They have been bullied too much by neighboring countries it is time for them to rise up
They have been bullied because they are weak and never were able to defend themselves. Even now. However they do love to warmonger.
@@theshadowman1398 that's not true there's multiple times where they defended themselves in history and won
Never until they will apologize , pay reparations and stop demanding mor that half of my country's teritory . Poland and Germany never even sighned peace deal after ww2.
@@SillyUwUBilly
Hahah, you Poles go on your knees for Germany, they will never pay you a dime
@@theshadowman1398 Ok Putinist.
I fully agree my Friend. What amazing story in the middle of EU. Would be great to share polish knowledge with other countries which are on the beginning of their „anti communism” journey.
Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela. But we have to stop with quasi communist government we have right now. Enough with social programs, nationalisation of bank, press and central planning like electric car fiasco.
@@Olejnick You guys better prepare for seeing more Communist style government's around the world. With the Great Reset it's going to be the major political system.
Countries in Western Europe didn't live through it yet so they do not recognize the symptoms but I see those changes everyday.
Poland is developing fast
Your intro has more symbolism than just about any modern Political Cartoon I've seen
I finally get to a video early enough to maybe get a top comment but I have nothing witty to say.
Respect to this rich and developed country form US!
Looks like I’m learning polish
Cool, can't say I've ever worked on a shipyard, although I do wonder about alot of things around here these days, like tiny tunnels, trying to reinvent the wheel with no homeless shelters in the windiest places, and how much heat it would take to grow Martian cave mushrooms or a condensation collector for water, and alot of other things.
0:30 wait, who the hell are you?
I didn't understand where those small business he talks at 11:46 came from?
In Romania most big state run companys were bought for nothing by party afiliates who then became the new bussiness elite. What prevented that in Poland?
@Luci Micle It was pretty much the same in Poland.
The post communist members of PZPR party have been, suddenly, present as a ceo's of the "nationalised" state companies.
*No*
Did the communist party in Romania remain in power after the fall of the iron curtain?
@@hbazioq Yes and no. The party was gone. But all the members who had a lot of influence mantained the influence. They were the first to call dibs on the privatisation of industry. And one of them even became the first president after the revolution. Much had changed yet everything staied the same.
@@liquidpodcast A former PZPR member is also also owns Distributor of Mercedes Benz Vehicle's in Poland..
I like the video, but please do some more research regarding name pronunciation.
Still have a trauma waiting in the queue to the coffee machine...
The capital miracle fixes the communist debacle. That is Poland 🇵🇱
Any country that turns the money printer off and lets failing businesses fail gets a thumbs up!
Just hope it doesn't turn into a collection of monopolies American style.
In capitalism, monopoly is not a problem. In capitalism, every monopoly is castrated, it always lives in fear of the DUNIA (Diehard competitors, Undead competitors, New competitors, Innovative competitors, and Adventurous competitors).
The only way a monopoly to be safe is by the help of government, either indirectly by giving special incentives or directly by outlawing competition. In capitalism, such treatments are blasphemy.
@@gorilladisco9108 Uh Huh u guess Facebook is really scared of... Oh nevermind their competitior just bankrupted lol.
@@olafjansowidz Yeah. Tell me about how Myspace monopoly was destroyed by Facebook, who was a type N competitor to Myspace. Currently Facebook main competitor for its monopoly is Google, a type D competitor.
There's a video : watch?v=Oh6iX6gDU6k
It talked about how Facebook is struggling to remain relevant.
@@olafjansowidz facebook is actually dying.
Oh trust me, as an American who's done some research, it's MUCH worse. Many of our companies have been sold off to foreign owners. America in terms of domesticly owned industry is nearly bankrupt, apart from the monopolies. I'm not sure what the answer is, apart from probably a MASSIVE trust-busting campaign on levels not seen since Teddy Roosevelt, and ripping up trade agreements with slave labor countries like China. The labor unions lost nearly all their power once outsourcing to those countries became an option.
Could you guys make a video about Maldives 🇲🇻 please. I would really would like to see something about my country
1:39 - I'd love to have that exact model now :D
Please expand on how this transformation solved or caused any social issues. For the capitalist vs socialist debate!
These are fairy tales for children and slaves of capitalism.
Here are some scientific facts about "transformation" by Prof. Bruno Drwęski.
th-cam.com/video/GOYtlQe1VFg/w-d-xo.html
@@towarzyszmirosaw6765 Tovarishch, communism doesn't work. Maybe for tovarishchs only, if they put themselves on privileged positions, however the most of them found capitalism as an opportunity for even better life, by wise investing what they gained before.
@@Pandzikizlasu80
Fly to your empire of evil/capitalism/usa and fight for your capitalism because it is collapsing.
Just watch out for the virus, because you will have to be treated in a private hospital :)
@@towarzyszmirosaw6765 Where would you fly then? Where communism worked? Why yours hope is a pandemics consuming millions of lives and paralyzing the economy if yours system is so great? Why an ordinary draught is a disaster in communist countries while in capitalism it means only a expensive parsley?
@@Pandzikizlasu80
Do you know what is the largest political party in the world?
I can say that it has 90 million members and has the word COMMUNIST in its name!
Enough of fairy tales,
To learn!
Anyone else think the thumb nail was Ted Cruz with a mustache
I didn't aware of it. You are right, it's weird.
Thats Bill Murray with a moustache in the thumbnail
Whether it's communism or capitalism, you need people and society which is so committed to work hard. Without that everything will suck.
And CEO’s that aren’t super-greedy!
If you think communists do not work hard, you are wrong. They work hard .. to make wrong products inefficiently. They also cowered into cluelessness. I read that grain from Ukraine had to be sent to Moscow before shipped further to Belarus instead of be shipped directly from Ukraine to Belarus. Nobody corrected the practice because of fear.
W in polish is the same as a V in English
Can I just point out that in Polish you pronounce every letter, so the word ending with "-ie" is not pronounced like the English double "e" (as in "see"), but like the word "yeah".
So "Polskie Radio" --> "Polsk-yeah radio" NOT "Polskee radio"
"Nie ma" --> "n-yeah ma" NOT "nee ma".
Also, Grant pls, minimal research on the surnames would be welcome:
Leszek Balcerowicz --> "Le-shek Bal-tze-ro-vich" NOT "Lesek Bal-tze-ro-witz"
Tadeusz Mazowiecki --> "Ta-de-oosh Ma-zo-vyeah-tzkee" NOT "Tadeist Mazowikee" (honestly, how did you arrive at this one...?)
Small private business (up to 50 employees) and private farms were not forbidden in Poland during the all communist era (except the years of Stalinism 1948-1956). In the rest of communist block it was forbidden. There was even a capitalistic market (not just private companies) in Poland before 1989. It was kind of pathology, sometimes just black market, but it worked, was much more productive and prepared people for the changes. You can see the old Polish comedy "Miś" from 1980 to see from what Poland transformed. It was definitively not the communism as people in west imagined. It was full of more or less legal private initiatives.
And another very, very important thing: there was also The Wilczek Act in 1988 (prepared by the last communist minister of economy, Mieczysław Wilczek). Wilczek Act actually legalized capitalism in Poland, with the rule, that "everything what's not disallowed is legal". More - it even helped people without money in opening small businesses (and growing), because to run business under this act was not expensive, it was even very, very easy and very cheap. In addition, there were plenty of niches to be developed. Many new Polish fortunes started with hard work at marketplaces, small producing shops, "garages" or offering people services outside the state-owned service companies. My friends just opened an English language private school in the rented flat, and after a year had the money for the publishing house. Sometimes it was enough to have only knowledge. And a lot of peoples had savings - small savings, but enough for the first step in business.
Besides in 1988, 1989, 1990 it was enough to work during 3 months of summer holidays on a construction site in England or Germany, or as a saleswoman in a clothing store in Stockholm or a pizza delivery man in London, to earn money to start business. Wilczek created opportunities and, whoever wanted to, took advantage of these opportunities. Balcerowicz's plan was later and concerned the transformation of the entire economy, state-owned companies, etc. On the other hand, the Wilczek Act caused the SME sector to explode in Poland.
It is also worth adding that many managers in Polish state-owned companies turned out to be very talented and creative entrepreneurs whenever they were allowed to do so (some of them became among the most rich ppl in the world, and they are not oligarchs of course). And it is worth remembering that communism in Poland actually started in 1948. Right after the war, the economy was capitalist and was quickly recovering, while at the same time there was a domestic war in Poland with the communists and the USSR supporting them. In the 1980s there were still a lot of people who successfully ran companies before and after the war, there were also many people who returned to Poland from emigration, having experience in running a business. The former brands and companies were revived. And in general, business was nothing unknown to Poles, now they simply spread their wings.
Poland to communism- "They had us in the first half, I'm not gonna lie"
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I want to know why Romania is still struggling 30 years after the fall of the iron curtain.
Romania next time 🙂
Vampires?
Romania's curse is corruption same as so many countries that are not succeeding as well as they should. Caspian report did a good video about it.
To many Gypsies in the government pocketing the money.
@M M
Poland joined the EU in 2004 and Romania joined in 2007 so it's only 3 years difference. So Romania right now should be on the same level as Poland was in 2017 and Poland's economy was doing excellent in 2017. Poland's economy actually started growing really fast around 2007.
A very positive video about Poland. Unfortunately, there is also the opposite on Youtub and Poland is defamed in videos. But with the great video really no Pole can complain. A small addition. In certain areas, the reformers of the polish economy exaggerated. Because there were companies that should not have been liquidated. For example, shipyards could have been reformed with state funds so that they were competitive.
L with a slash is like a W in English
I don’t know who needs to hear this but stop saving all your money, invest some of it if you want financial freedom
Invest in bitcoin, gold, silver, the forex market, buy stock, anything!
@@user-gp9nt6kq8o honestly man. I tell this to my friends everyday. it's good to save money but you gotta have that investing spirit if you really want financial freedom.
@@user-on7sy6iz4n I totally agree with you
@@user-on7sy6iz4n but what if you dont know how to trade any of these?
I mean, I see your point. Some people have the money and are willing to invest. But the problem is where to
@goretti paes wow! that's really impressive
Very good and Goodluck Poland,Shalom from Israel.
I guess you forgot how well they helped the Germans with exterminating ?
@@theshadowman1398 Go count some Polish 'Righteous among nations' trees in Yad Vachem before churning out such comments.. Not saying there were no antisemites. Every country had them. Just keep the damn perspective.
And also keep in mind that 'Righteous' titles were given only to LIVING ppl for many years. A great many paid with their lives for aiding Jews...
@@Dreju78
Oh sure, that’s why when Jewish survivors returned to their houses they were chased away by the Polish who nicked them.
@@theshadowman1398 and yet you still generalize and have yet to count those trees, huh?
And there are no circumstances that explain things, are there?
Like the fact that it was not liberation but a change of occupier.
Like the fact that Jews were well overrepresented in the Soviet terror apparatus (there are reasons for it like the fact that internationalism offered by communism was attractive to ppl who who, at the time had no land to call exclusively their own), and Jews were to many simple ppl synonnymous to communists.
Or all the horrors of war that made attrocities like this 'normalized' so morr possible, whatever the reason..
Go watch here on YT Konstanty Gebert 'Poles ane Jews divided by a common history' tobget at least a HINT of nuance in the subject.
The absolute worst thing you can do is to judge entire ppl. It's not like this has caused ANY problems before, right? Especially for Jews?
@@Dreju78
You lot constantly demonize whole of Russia and Russians somehow you have no moral issues with that.
Thanks for the positive video. I think you did a similar one a couple of years ago. But please for being called “visual” Politik you guys should really upgrade your graphics. Plus some of your data used on FDI was way outdated.
Go Poland!!!
🇪🇸🇪🇺🇵🇱
Free Catalonia
@@theshadowman1398 🤷🏽♂️
Ignore him , he is same person who was saying that Soviest liberated Poland from Germans , and was spreading old soviet propaganda , I respect Spanish border integrity. Love from Poland.
@@SillyUwUBilly Best wishes for all our Polish brothers and sisters too! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇵🇱🇵🇱
@@charlesramses1029 yes, some ruski got lost in the internet again.
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Poland will always grow strong 🇵🇱💪💪
You stated 2-3x in the video that the Polish economy was almost on par with Spain, implying that Spain has a good economy. The Spanish economy isn’t well nor has it been well in for a long time, these problems have been present since long before COVID. In fact, if given a choice between the two economies to invest in I’d pick Poland.
You know the point is that 30 years ago Spain seemed like heaven compare to Poland about development and standard of life. Now purchasing power in Poland is higher than in Portugal and I would say on level of Italy and Spain and Poland is developing and those countries are not. Of course average Italian is wealthier than pole- they accumulated this wealth in centuries and in Poland it's totally new