On Polish historical trauma
Polish 80 year old has 30-50% has PTSD Baseline for western european countries is around 5%
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Poland is am ambitious and hard working and graphs with more countries: a World Bank, Madison project
While the gain in per-capita GDP has been high, this grossly understates the magnitude of the economic progress. Why? Because, due to the low quality and severe shortages of goods, Communism exhibited massive CPI bias. Since true prices under Communism were much higher than official prices, initial poverty was far more severe than standard statistics would have you believe. Poland, Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia are all economic miracles, veritable Wirtschaftswunder, and we should all give thanks.Poland wealthier than Portugal for the first time, show EU data | Notes From Poland