@prettywiseOG@w_milczynska This isn’t cherry-picking — it’s simply a fact that stings. One has to start somewhere.
First you overtake in total GDP, then you catch up in GDP per capita, and eventually you leave the others behind. That’s precisely how the countries that are wealthy today once did it.
@prettywiseOG@w_milczynska We had:
123 years without a state (the partitions),
World War II, which took 6 million of our people and razed Warsaw to the ground,
and then another 45 years of the Soviet system that deliberately held back our development.