Don't forget that after WWII, Poland's infrastructure was devastated. The USSR rebuilt a lot of that.
I am in Lithuania now, drove here from Krakow and the infastructure is terrible.
And why all middle aged and old people like communism and think it was better at that time?
In fact I never met anyone to describe me a shitty life under communism.
Naw, Polish people were being used and they did not like it, I have spoken to many people about it.
There is more of a feeling in the older generation of Lithuanians of missing the false nannying of the state.
Sure there was work but nothing in the shops.
Sure there was free houseing, for those that could afford it.
Sure Mother Russia would look after you, the price was your freedom.
If you lived in one of the occupied by communist Russians, Eastern European country you would see how it really was and how the system worked.
Or more to the point Čdidn't workČ.
Communism failed in the eastern block, because the Soviet Union gave weapon-production top priority to an ununjustifiable degree. If they stopped in the 60ties at a state where they had enough IMCBs to destroy the socalled free world, they could achieve their goal to free the proletariat class from the burden of exploitation.
You coukld continue that sentence 'they could achieve their goal to free the proletariat class from the burden of exploitation and instead be exploited by someone else.
That is a supposition, you do not know that.
I help build this edifice while in third and fourth and fifth year of university study for my volunteer work brigade
I have a job for you.
I have met many people here in Lithuania whose parents were sent to Sibera for offrences, many people did not make it, horrorr stories.
Siberia always makes me think of Austrailia, in this respect, if you disbeyed the Russian commies you were sent to Sibera, If an Irish man disobayed the English Empire he was sent to Australia.
Commyunism kills individualism, in Cambodia they even killed anyone with glasses, saying they were intillectuals.
I have worked in Lithuania for many years now and I still can't get my head around some of the stupid systems in place here, left by commies.
I will write more on this laters.