Why build Gdynia port in Gdynia was a great work, and the erection of residential-industrial complex of Nowa Huta – at best – idiocy? Answer: because yes. Of course, if at all we put this question, because in today’s debate – also economic – if you have ever refer to the past, to the time that most 20-year interwar period, which has become a model of Sevres. Meanwhile, what has happened after World War II until 1989. It is by definition bad. (Aside less numerous group, which still claims that that system was the best. But it is the other end of our ideological obstinacy).
Let us together – rejecting emotions in so far as the give – whether comparing PRL and these days a free, democratic and Polish market, you can find some common points of reference. The good and the bad. With one caveat – the analogies tend to be attractive publicystycznie, albeit superficial. However, as noted by prof. Jerzy Kochanowski, a historian from Warsaw University, studying the processes of history, it is worth doing it a certain intellectual kaleidoscope: when it rotates, changing points of view, the individual molecules rotate to align in increasingly different, fascinating picture.
Entrepreneurship
the war, the country is ruined – literally and figuratively. The economy in ruins. What is not destroyed and not exported Germany, dokradają Russians. According to historians, the Polish GDP in 1945. Compared to that of 1938. Decreased by 38 percent. The first years after the liberation of that period of chaos (more in the interview with Marcin Zaremba on p. 18) – a bloody political struggle, but also spontaneous actions and actions taken by people dreaming about this, that their life has become better. Own hands odgruzowują streets, rebuild public buildings, organize social and cultural life.
explodes entrepreneurship – multiply stalls, each of the smallest village has its loot-square, the trade goes the whole hog – because there are new opportunities. Open pubs, shops and workshops. Some earn a creativity and work, others go for shortcuts: more profitable to go to the Recovered Territories, to bring thence looted from abandoned by the Germans house property, it is easier to rob houses murdered Jews, dig out the gold teeth from the camp ground than to bother a poorly paid job . Especially since this is a little – unemployment raging and even veterans of the struggle for independence can not count on employment. Rising crime, the most brutal. The state is weak, unable to comprehend this mess. Get rich thugs and collaborators. And political officers.
I do not want to be too literal, so vulgar. But prudence and knowledge leave the reader piece together the images of these two supposedly incompatible to each other eras. Now asking the password. Crime – after 1989. Our dictionary entered permanently word mafia, which then meant mainly gangs, such as Pruszkow and Wolomin. Entrepreneurship: Polish to drive heavy trucks left spirit, and who has the systems, this assumes currency exchange offices. Transformations: a pair of gold can become the owner of an industrial plant, provided that it has the systems. Unemployment – if in January 1990. Was (at least officially) 0.3 per cent., Is four years later 16.9 percent. At kuroniówce they landed especially the heroes of the revolution – large-scale working class, whose rebellion led to the change. But as he wrote Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud, French politician the Great Revolution is like Saturn – devours its own children. That was in 1793., Just after World War II, just after the Round Table (well, the state is not too put their enemies literally to death, so please forgive this may be too far-fetched metaphor).
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