Quoting: zion
like what ?? they also been under Russia rule for long time
The Czech Republic has never been under Russian rule. For few centries they had been under Austrian/German rule, but lived with them peacefully, with their help were building a modern country, had access to all western achievements, in the same time a large part of Poland was occupied by Russians, who were deporting Poles to Siberia and sharing with us know-how of building donkey trails... Besides Czechs didn't suffer very much during WW2, compare Warsaw and Prague in 1945. Sure It can't be use forever as an excuse, but anyone who says that Czechs have made in recent times much bigger progress than Poles is simply wrong. I doubt that they even made equal progress... Czech Republic is simply historically better developed than Poland, just like Poland is historically better developed than for exampel Albania and no matter how hard Albanians will try, they simply will be poorer at least for the next few decades.