Don’t know why this is downvoted. The history of Poland for the last 300 years is pretty much exactly what you wrote.

Well there are plenty of countries that aren't facing those conditions now, or in the recent past and still have shitty economies. It undersells how hard it is to build a strong economy and therefore undersells how hard Poland has worked.

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PunchyHamster an hour ago | parent | next [-]

being in the trade union helps, especially when for most part it was "cheap labour" for that union

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6d6b73 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But maybe that's because these countries did not have to struggle as hard as Poland did?

	▲	ch4s3 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t find that to be a very compelling argument.