Is Poland Becoming a Major European Superpower? 

Poland still sucks when people make only 500$ per month and rent can be more than that 😆

Bueno, eso depende de quien eres y como seas, mis amigos se fueron de erasmus a Cracovia y fueron agredidos por la calle, por ser una pareja gay e ir cogidos de la mano por la calle, y cuando fueron a denunciar a la policía, en Polonia la agresión por motivos de odios hacía la orientación sexual no es un delito, no hubo un caso de investigación ni nada. Polonia no es un lugar seguro para la comunidad LGBT, ni para los suyos ni para los turistas.

@@davidstrelec2000 minimum wage in PL is 746 EUR/Month

@@JimmyC-lx2hx and there are the same issues in every country

@@alexvelara6104 Yo voy a responder en portugues porque mi español no es muy bueno. Lamento ouvir o que aconteceu. Infelizmente a Polónia ainda é um país bastante conversador e de mentalidade retrógada. Mas todos os país o foram no passado. Eventualmente a sociedade polaca irá evoluir assim como as sociedades da Europa ocidental evoluíram.

Very impressive, only a super power is able to do that 👀

Lmao

😂😂😂😂 ☠️

There's a mistake in the video!!! Should be "from USSR in the late 80s" not "90s"!!!

As a Pole, I can say, that this is just typical day in Poland

Im a native Pole and its sad beckose our own citizen think they are better living in germany or france and are constantly angry abaut the prices and low salaries . They are like comparing Poland to the USA when Poland is like a normal country and USA is a fucking global superpower and they are saying " look we are not as rich as the americans our country sucks " Our own people are cosnantly finding downsites to living in here instead of being happy. To be honest only foreigners like you see the good sides of living here im glad you came working with us.

Just wait until real estate firms start to realize the potential, buy up all the housing and jack up rents. It's bound to happen...

​@@steffenjensen422 Isn't it happening already? Nowadays on any bigger Polish city, a small studio will cost you around 600€ + utilities. That's on the level of a middle sized city in Germany while the salaries are 60-70% The overall cost of living is lower, but accomodation is precisely the worst bang for buck.

@@tadeuszmarin5704 what a lie, so you think an appartment in Poland is almost 3000 zloty? 😂 a decent appartment is max 1500 zloty or around 300 euro. you must be getting scammed.

@@steffenjensen422 it's happening

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Welcome in NATO!

is this Finland the country which first go extinct because of record low fertality?>

You've done good step by joining to NATO . Great decision ! Greetings for you Suomi people !

Finland still has better Education system than Polish... saying this as a Born Polish citizen

Isn't it just Czechia now?

It can go by both names

Yes greetings to you too. I love Czech bear and knedliczki

​@@KaiserOfAryas it's both

@@KaiserOfAryas Czech Republic is the full name, Czechia is the short version afaik; analogous to "Federal Republic of Germany" vs "Germany"

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I am romanian, and i love our Polish neighbors and Poland 🇵🇱😊👋. Respect and well done Poland 🇵🇱!✊👏❤️🙌

I fell in love with Romania a couple of years ago. I'm going to Romania again next week. Greets from Poznań.

Hope Romania will also be the success story like Poland !!!

Well done Romania. After all, we started together and we have a similar balance.

No.

​@@Aggoenix yes, as the results go to show. They also never robbed other countries and civilizations on British or French or German or Spanish or Russian scale.

If you think Polish people are stubborn, you're yet to visit the Balkan. 🤣🤣 I'd rather call Poland persistent. Stubbornness doesn't necessarily yield good enough results.

@@j.t2548 nope.

@@Aggoenix uh, yes. cope, and mald even.

Software developer from Poland here. I'd like to say that Romania has gone a long way too since the collapose of communism. It has done a good job with fighting corruption and has innovative population that gave us UiPath, the most improtant technology in the Robotic Process Automation sphere. Other than that, Romania is the second big NATO country on the frontier in Eastern Europe. It is in our common interest to ensure that we are prosperous and can provide security in the region. All the best to the Romanians!

@@maganzo all the best you to too, brother

Romania is awesome. Much of love from Poland

Polish people honest? That’s rare

@@taavi948 Not in my experience

@@taavi948 you can't make a judgement of a people based on the actions of a few, i haven't met much polish people but i am sure you exaggerate when you say its rare.

@@jordanmason7127 You can't make a judgement based of the actions of a few nazis. Okay, I got it.

@@S4ngheli05 Idk, come and live in Poland and you see how honest they really are. Unfortunately Polish people I've met have been some of the most dishonest, backstabbing people I've ever met. I've only met 3 good Poles whom I can trust. Polish people are very far from being honest and the current generation isn't even hard-working.

Been there multiple times, fantastic country and best black metal scene in the world

@@rinodb83 Yes

Germany needs to pay its reparation. EU funds run both ways. The Polish market directly profits EU controlling countries like Germany far more than they pay. It's a sham of a "union"

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@@swagkachu3784 German barbarians

NO, stay away with your politics, everything woke go broke!

where are you from?

Wow. Smart

Be prepared to be filled with Muslims, sub Saharan Africans and far left woke ideologies that will eventually destroy your country slowly but surely just like the UK. And USA So enjoy it while it lasts

This is super cool, greetings to you and your teacher from Poland!

We really have an unusual work ethic that is so different to the anglosaxon one

this is just the immigrant work ethic, same here but different nations

Work hard, get money, come back to your country. Popular mindset

Bunch? People don't come in bunches. You can have a bunch of keys, a bunch of bananas, a bunch of grapes or tomatoes that's all. Try to expand your range of vocabulary rather than using childish Americanisms

​@@mypointofview1111 okay dude nobody cares that you're a virgin, no need to announce it all over the RU-vid comment section

True, it is similar to say Polish Death Camps (WW2) when we talk about Auschwitz-Birkenau, etc

@@majy1735 I disagree!

Eastern European countries were part of the USSR. Central European countries, on the other hand, were only part of the Warsaw Pact.

@@n6rt9s You're every bit right but, when someone is unable to distinguish between being a Soviet republic and being a Soviet "satellite State", they're even less likely to understand the distinction between Central and Eastern Europe. Most Westerners obsessively confuse the two concepts and lump it under the name of "Eastern Europe" because, in their view, it's all "the Eastern block". So sad.

@@majy1735not necessarily Romania isn’t central but southeastern and it was a satellite state of the USSR.

I'm not surprised you would hear this in usa. There people will always talk about worst of countries instead of good

Poland has a history of producing exceptional mathematicians and therefore should lead in the fields of computer science and programming. I have worked with many Polish engineers and have found them to be very adept and intelligent people.

We emigrated to the UK when I was 4 and I never heard "polish = dumb" until I heard it from Joan fucking Rivers - and then heard it when I visited america. which is HILARIOUS given that it was always so very very clear to me that the standard education level , level of public discourse, and level of general knowledge in Poland are so much higher than in the UK and the USA. It doesn't bother me that much since I know its not true, and frankly I can see how things are constantly getting better and better . Sometimes its good to be underated.

Pretty rich saying another country's people is dumb coming from americans lol

Don't feel bad about it. In some countries American is a code word for dumb. 😚

Mdah Roumania,Hungary and republic of Moldova they didnt "nothing " for those people

@@iliepetcan1736 of course they did something but poland and especially polish people did majority of the work

Thank you USA for buying our Inglot cosmetics, witcher games and Assecco IT services. That adds up a lot to economy.

Skiing in Australia is really impressive. Do you ski down Mt Kościuszko?

@@martakostulska1118 O matko autokorekta XD Miałam na myśli Austrię 🤣 Ale chciałbym ☺️, może w przyszłości

Just because your family's income is above the national median income, doesn't make you "the upper-middle class". In fact, trying to corroborate that claim by way of boasting you can afford now some trendy vacation spot, indicates you're not. Being part of the "upper-middle class" is not only (perhaps, above all) about naive consumption.

80's were the worst times in Poland. I was a little kid when my Mom used to send me with a coupon to keep a place in line to get bread in one store and meat in another. I just remember I was so cold waiting at 5:00am in a line full of people to get food with my coupon and money that were almost worthless due to inflation. Because of that, I have a huge despise of communists or modern woke generation that reminds me of communists in Poland when I was growing up.

I was born in 87 and I remember how buying a shoes for winter was a financial struggle for my parents... They both work full time... We all worked hard and earn very little. I remember working in supermarket for 1 eur/h 12 years ago, now I earn like 11eur/h working in finance. Still lower than EU average but decent money as per living costs in PL.

Our new army will be here to also help you in case you will need it :)

Thank you France for giving Poland a helpful hand so many times in the history! Vive la France!

I think you meant Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Also, missed another great pole - Fryderyk Chopin. Meanwhile, inclusion of the world's largest ped0phile ring protector - John Paul II - was unnecessary.

We fought side by side with your emperor and the French. Us Poles love and respect France and Napoleon deeply. At Somosierra the emperor Napoleon said his Polish cavalry was “The bravest”. Poniatowski, Dąbrowski. Just as we fought against the nazi and fascist to liberate yours and our country during WW2, and we Poles did that with every single drop of blood in our bodies. However, you did not give us many thanks for that, quite frankly you, the British and the Americans sold us to Russia and communism and they raped all of eastern Europe. But Poland love France! Hurrah!

Copernicus was German not Polish, but fair enough

Dont forget about Chopin!!

Are you ever considered visiting Warsaw ? Its a beautiful capital

@@rafasztuba7657 to be honest I'm torn of wanting to visit Warsaw and Krakow lol

@@TheRedSoulofDT Kraków is much more historic. From Krakow you can also check out the Wieliczka salt mine and visit german death camp Auschwitz.

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Pozdrawiam brata ze Słowacji😁

Expecting TLDR to know such things? You must be new here.

@@impact0r lol "first time?" James Franco at the gallows meme

​@@przemos7816 Don't be a ciućmok. One is USSR, the other is countries influenced by USSR.

@@przemos7816 nie wiedziałeś, że Polska nie była w związku sowieckim? no nie rób se jaj. chyba że o PRLu nie słyszałeś też.

@@impact0r 😃

Never vote on the Left, you have one of the few countries that will succeed. Don't let immigration ruin your country.

Dobry język polski bro😄

Yea but every time poland wins someone will fuck us up

Poland is never lost ❤

Zapraszam ich do zbioru jabłek lub ziemniaków.

@@anonanon4631 jak sie do tego nadawales to je zbierales, ja jezdzilem w kazde wakacje na studiach i prace mialem zawsze ciekawe, od prowadzenia zmian na magazynach, po typowe przekladanie papierow, nie oceniaj wszystkich swoja miara kolego.

@@Jehudiel123 o jak wspaniale człowieku sukcesu. Jestes kimś. Tak trzymaj. Sam tym czasem będę chętny do nadzorowania zbioru jabłek i ziemniaków przez angoli .

@@anonanon4631 proba wykpienia prawdy jest smieszna i zalosna jednoczesnie, nie chodzi o balwochwalstwo, chodzi o to, ze latwiej jest zbierac jablka niz sie postarac o cos wiecej i to ze zbierales jablka nie mialo zrodla w tym, ze byles gorszy bo byles polakiem, a zrodlem byles ty, bo w zyciu zawsze mozna inaczej, ale trza chciec pozdrawiam.

Not first and not last time. This is how world works

Lol total deny of reality. The EU and the free market is a major contributor to Poland growth.

@@fan2hd277 Other EU countries are also profiting from Poland joining it. EU is not a charity

@@fan2hd277 Want to know how EU “aid” works in Poland? The EU funds infrastructure in Poland, a French company gets the contract and constructs it using German machines and engineers, hiring Poles for the manual labour to keep the costs low.

They didn't do it on their own though. EU was a big factor for their growth.

I think the same. We will see.

Zgadzam się ze Polska będzie potężna ale nie porównuj nas do Niemiec bo to nas obraza😡Nie lubimy niemieckich świń i bardzo się od nich różnimy😎

Lol.

😅They just talk BS all day long, and do nothing. And can't do nothing by itself, because they have nothing to offer, and can't exist by its own! But, if we can see, the constantly talking is enough for many People to believe and praise them! And on the other hand we lough about the naiv Brits... 🤣

Ja jaaa, Germany is very consolidate democracy , poland is just a catholic fascist regime fighting human rights, thats It , they can make Up in front Europe saying they are a democracy but they just have change comunism in fascism

bueno... si no miramos al hecho de que Polonia tuvo las llamadas "zonas sin lgbt" .... y de que es el país más homofobico de toda la unión europea, hasta el punto de que su presidente dijera que los gays no son personas, miles de jóvenes polacos están migrando a países de Europa occidental para vivir sus vidas en paz, siendo quien son, sin prejuicios o ataques

@@alejandrosuarez8569 you probably have no idea about Polish policy and society. I'm Polish, i hate our government (i support small liberal-capitalistic party, Law and Justice is conservative-socialist ), but 1. Polish president never said that. 2. In Poland is more tollerance for LGBT then in the majority countries in EU. The most of Poles want freedom as it's about same-sex partnerships, but opposes the adoption of children by same-sex couples.

Saludos desde Polonia ♡

​​@@alejandrosuarez8569 se ve q nunca visitaste Polonia. En EU hay más paises donde la gente es homofobica, racista etc . Además los jóvenes no emigran

@@ThomasJ.StonewallJackson 2. Hmmm... I'm unsure if there's more tolerance. I don't really know. There are people who are tolerant and who are homophobic but the majority doesn't even give a damn fuck because we consider our sexual life personal.

Yes we are all European brothers and sisters , from the Netherlands .

Thank you brother. But countries like ours (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania etc.) need to fix our demographics. At this point im happy that we all are rising and developing, but dropping birth rates will make us weaker in the future.

​@@pawepawe6788 It depends if we'll prepare for that. Canada have smaller population than Poland and their country is way bigger and they're doing well.

@@pawepawe6788 I'd argue that we're developing right now. Newest political history of poland is just poor. I really doubt future has still much to offer for our country.

Thank You. hope peace and prosperity welcomes all eastern Europe .

Poland is the most homophobic and authoritarian country in Europe, young poles leaves to western countries, because there are no freedom in Poland

@@slawischenwolf4387 young Poles leave because there are still higher salaries elsewhere and more opportunities. Polish people are also more serious and colder whereas the friendly Polish people often want equally friendly people they'll only find abroad. Poland is not authoritarian, it is a free country. But some areas outside the major cities may come accross as homophobic because the people there have never met anyone who's not a white Roman-Catholic Pole.

@@sagbon98 or maybe they come off as homophobic because they have literally "LGBTQ-free zones."

@@mmm7528 LGBTQ-free zones are unofficial and unenforced

​@@alejandrosuarez8569super! Może dzięki temu się rozwija. Ile Ci Ruski płaci za te komentarze? Bo widzę ,że wszędzie piszesz to samo bocie ;)

I agree. European Union is unbeatable when we all share our wealth. Greetings from Sweden.

Regards from Poland

We need Europe to be good. We need the east side of EU to be better than any vassal of Russia.

@@__Aurora__ hm. Sounds communist to me

Thank You Hit. How times have changed. In the times of the USSR, Poland was, according to the USSR, oriented to occupying Denmark in the event of a heated conflict. You heard about it from time to time on state stations. However, none of the Poles imagined it and I don't think it ever happened even under that regime. The Poles simply wouldn't do it, because they saw clearly where the evil empire is and where the free nations that we peacefully joined.

who are you talking to then

I only wish Poland was more accepting of LGBTQ+, then everyone could be happy.

Poland is the most homophobic country and the most hostile towards the LGBT community in the entire European Union, Poland is hell for people who want to live in peace, being who they are without being attacked or dehumanized by their president.

@@RyakkiBaka No

Lol where do you live? For sure not Poland

A oni maja nas gleboko w dupie i tylko patrza jak nas wydymac.

@@gregbalamut3352pierdolenie.Oni nas bardzo lubią i jesteśmy do siebie bardzo podobni.

Except communist descendants still hold all of the power here. PL is a totalitarian state. Most Poles think they’ve failed, especially anti-communist activists from the 1970-80s. They say it wasn’t worth their sacrifice.

​@@buoazejThe PO party is authoritarian communist. The PIS is democratic and pro western, patriotic.

Is it true that people in The Netherlands dislike Polish immigrants? I hear that a lot.

@@user-be1jx7ty7n Broer ik zei alleen maar dat ik blij ben voor Polen. Ze hebben niet echt de makkelijkste geschiedenis en het is wel eens fijn dat het eindelijk eens een keertje goed gaat qua economie enzo

@Rafael White it's not that they dislike Polish immigrants. They do a lot of jobs that most Dutch people don't want to do, such as cleaning, for example. But I think that the main reason that some people don't like them is the language barrier. A lot of Polish immigrants don't speak Dutch and not a lot of English either. Dutch people like to talk and like have a little conversation, but since most of the Polish immigrant workers don't speak Dutch, they are often perceived as rude or distant. I know a few workers and some of them do speak Dutch very well, and they have a lot fewer problems. They have Dutch friends, whereas some of the Polish workers who don't speak Dutch mostly only have Polish friends. I think that that's the main reason

Thank you for this comment. It's nice to read these words from a Dutchman

@@RafaelW8 Those who are not able to develop in Poland go to the Netherlands to work. They are suitable only for the simplest tasks, e.g. cleaning. In Poland, these people are replaced by Emigrants from the East. So these simple, uneducated people unfortunately often spoil the opinion of us Poles abroad.

Germany invaded Poland...Russia helped liberate it.

@@finianlacy8827 Russia invaded Poland on a second front, and it had plans to split up Poland with the Germans. The Soviets also raped more than 100,000 Polish women. It’s easy to understand why the Poles don’t trust the Russians.

@@finianlacy8827 bullshit. Partially. Yes, we were invaded by Germany, but the Soviets did not liberate us lol. They enslaved us to their fucked up economic system. And guess what? They sent a lot of Poles to their work camps in Syberia. So, no better than Nazis concentration camps. Nazis wanted to just kill all of us in Poland. Soviet Union wanted us to be enslaved to their economy and done it. We finally had partially democratic elections in 1989! So we suffered from socialism and totalitarianism from WWII until, 1989. So, how did Russia liberate us? Just ask Poles why we hate Russians so much. I already explained to you so you know why we hate Russia. What all Poles have in common is that we despise Russia. They backed stabbed us and enslaved us. They did not liberate Poland. What a joke. Don’t you learn history?

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​@@finianlacy8827 Russia was killing and harrasing Polish people for hundreds of years. What Russians did to Poland was 10x more worse than Germans did to Poland. Soviet mentality irreversibly changed and damaged Polish spirit and we will never forget about it.

ironic

how ironic

Your warm climate is not the best enviroment to build productivity, I think thats one of the factors

@@Morcin00 the biggest factor is the distance to the economic centers of europe. Poland is in a relativelly good position in europe that allows it to take advantage of the industrial capacity and some of the economic wealth of germany and the nordics to some extent. On the other side, it sits between trade routes that come in and out of europe. Portugal doesn't have that advantage, it's relativelly peripherical, which makes trade inherently more expensive and less atractive to companies. Although we did take advantage of our position once in our past and forged our empire out of it, so I guess we have to be content with it, not blame geography and just adapt to the ages.

Thank you. However in Poland we have different saying instead of Sława/Slava like in Ukraine. We have "Niech Żyje Polska" - Long Live Poland, fits better. Belarus also have saying Long Live Belarus instead of Slava Belarus

@@vattghern257 kogo to obchodzi?

​@@MrTekeshitego kogo może

@@MrTekeshizamkleksiony imbecylu trafiłeś na zły filmik. Na nim przedstawione są fakty które są oszałamiające. Idź na materiał tvnu albo onetu

Well, as you said, Poland is the biggest (so it's being talked about the most) and only country that joined the EU after 2004, with enough political power to counter the biggest players in the EU. Romania is obviously the next candidate, but it is still only half the size of Poland. In 1990, Poland was far less developed and had a significantly smaller GDP per capita than Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary. That being said, we shouldn't overlook the achievements of those countries.

I agree wholeheately. These central european countries would have surpassed many of the western neighbors lonmg ago if they hadn't been handed off to the russians after world war two so they could have and the same advantages that Germany did of Marshall funds and wouldn't have to deal with the old guard hangover until they die off. Of course if Germany hadn't been the agressor, there is no saying how far they could have sky rocketed in the twentieth century.

I agree with it if you talk about eastern Europe (even though Poland belongs to central Europe) and include everything on the eastern side of Germany in it (which is even a bigger part). But if you talk about central Europa, Poland can't be the biggest one right now - that's Germany. It's still impressive and i hope the rise of our polish neighbors will continue (even though i dislike the current polish government).

It would have been great to have Ukraine in that team.

@@gabsch1 well geographical center of Europe is in... Belarus :) Huge part of Russia belongs to Europe so when you look at it from this perspective you can say Germany belong to Western Europe. From polish perspective we always refer to Germany as part of Western Europe but more in political/social than geographical sense.

Probably the state of Bavaria soon will surpass the UK's annual GDP in terms of economy 😁

Ahahhahah, I'm sorry that was a lot of damage XD

@Zaydan Alfariz I know the Indians rank #5 now. I wonder how long it will take the UK to drop out of the G10.

@@EllieD.Violet per capita, you already. Hell, the UK's GDP per capita is the almost same as Lower Saxony, where I live.

@@me0101001000 Gruss nach Niedersachsen vom Chiemsee 😁😊

You wish. A growing gdp doesn’t mean you are relevant. Especially because France and Germany are also benefiting from Poland workforce. They all grow together. The only thing that can boost more Poland is being USA new darling in Europe because they constantly undermine EU policies.

@@fan2hd277 Only during the 6,5 years (being in EU for 19 years). It is not "constantly" undermining. And not in the last year... Anyway, there is a great chance, that ruling party will not win the parliament elections this year.

​@@fan2hd277 If you're referring to the party currently in power, the PiS, please remember they're Polands equivalent of trumpistas. That aside, Poland's (and the Baltics' and Ukraine's) top priority for the past 800 years or so has been being able to resist Russia's innumerable attempts to control them. Western Europe has tended to label these attempts as overreactions. IIRC, one Polish gov't official was publicly called hysterical about the Nazi threat. That was in the summer of '39, I think. We all know how that turned out.

I understand some polit differences and the fact that some puppets of Germany from the western "Recovered Territories" may feel indignant that Poland is governed by a Polish party(PiS) elected by Poles and not by the pushers of Germany (PO, it's a German CDU's sponsored bitch and a equivalent to American most leftist pseudo Librats) and Russia (Confederation and the Left). Poland will grow and win the next elections. No amount of red propaganda, whether from the leftist parts of the USA, Germany, France or from Jewish-occupied Palestine, will change that. The way the predecessors ruled was a joke, PiS fixed it all and since they won twice already or actually four times, because they also won the presidential elections two times, makes it very clear what Polish people want and as you can see in the current war and inflation crisis, Poland is doing very well in comparison to other EU members, regardless of what the trolls of hostile countries spreading in here. We are respected for what we do now and if i think 8 years back i can't even imagine how fucking bad it actually was in comparison to what it is now... Holy tits. We respect freedom, we help others and we keep on growing step by step. We actually don't need anything else as to stay on the path we are now. How it was and how it is now in Poland: Our army was disarmed by PO/Konfederacja/Lewica(German and Russian puppets), a defense line ''strategy'' was created in the center of the country on the Vistula river, which would have led the enemy straight into our territory and have ended up like in Ukrainian Bucha or Mariupol. Military units were transferred to the west of the country to defend Germany at our own expense of population and loss of territories is openly a sabotage. Most of polish voters come from the Central-Eastern part of Poland(Polish pre-WW II territories and now and the line of voting for PO coincides perfectly with the line of former German territories ''Recovered WesternTerritories''), losing it to Russia would leave only PO-German and former Volksdeutsche supporters in the West giving them and Germany full power over the remaining ''Polish'' country in the west which i bet would become Germany very soon and the business as usual with Russia would be back without a doubt(like it was no reaction on Crimea anx.). The polish industry was about being sold out by Tusk(PO), knowing that he would lose the position of prime minister and his PO-German Party also, tried to sell our shipyards, ordered his political militia/Police to shoot at striking miners(XXI c. In Europe), yea guess what? He wanted to sell all of our mines too, and finally escaped to Brussels, he was called by Putin ''Our men in Warsaw''. They-PO (today's pseudo opposition, which basically consists of saboteurs and people paid by Berlin and the Kremlin) will do everything to bring Poland to ruin again. During their rule, they ordered people to collect roadside fruits and sorrel to survive. They are not who they present themselves to be in the west, they are strongly anti-state people who waited for weeks for a official German speaking out on the war in Ukraine so as not to come into conflict with their sponsors(imagine this lol), and when one of the German politicians visits Poland, they invite their mongrels to the German embassy so that nothing of their joint plotting against Poland escapes the public opinion. PO, Konfederacja, Lewica and its cuckold parties are a bunch of oligarchs and corrupt people, entangled in the plunder of pensions (over PLN 300 billion, about USD 70 billion), various corruption scandals, including "Amber Gold"(a financial pyramide for another hundreds of Billions) in which the son of the former prime minister Tusk made profits and admitted it (''my father knew it was swindling''). Poland does not have a normal opposition party, only the Soviet-Nazi element that has remained here and usurps the right to come to power. And if you think that Poland would help Ukraine to the extent that it is doing now, then look at the political line of Germany and what Ive typed earlier, Ukraine would be gone long ago if they were in power, because any help would be reduced to a minimum or no help at all, because the predecessors of the currently ruling party are a slimy extension of the hands of Germans and Russia, openly anti-Ukrainian and anti-Polish. Living with such individuals as these traitors in the service of foreigners in one country is almost an art of survival. If you didn't grow up in a post-communist country, you may not understand the realities that prevail here and why weve have chosen PiS(Law and Justice). Nothing is easy in here after years of soviet/german influence. And btw. The West called as ''rusophobic'' as Poland/PiS-Party(The ruling and only Polish party) warned you that Putin will attack Ukraine or the Baltic states in the near future... Look at it now and think twice before you make our gov a bad PR, because all this what Poland has become now is their hard work and it was a damn long road to that point. Hope I helped a bit. That's it, b-regards.

Poland has great cosmetic, IT, and computer games industry, very modern and profitable.

As an architect, I can only confirm ;))))

@@doubtingthomas136 PiS is hot garbage.

Yes, indeed. And my congrats on that! - Just try and keep it that way and tell your government not to interfere with an independent judiciary. Otherwise you might soon lose some of that "democracy" (along with some EU´s subsidies...).

@@LazyJack2003 Thank you! Though I would argue with your statement that our ongoing judiciary problem is a problem to polish democracy, though I don't agree with my goverment on this topic.

@@tomaszjabonski4942 Just to avoid misunderstandings:I did not mean this as in "a typically polish" problem. Certainly not. I meant it as in "a judiciary that needs to follow the orders of the ruling party is a clear danger to any democracy." So, I keep my fingers crossed for the next elections. (And I will still visit your beautiful country in summer...)

@DoubtingThomas well definitely better than Germany, which has destroyed itself with immigration and gas reliance on Russia

🇮🇹♥️🇵🇱Gli italiani sono persone meravigliose Amo questo bellissimo paese e le persone, è un peccato che l'Italia non sia vicina ai polacchi Gli italiani sono un amore speciale che voglio cercare in Italia 😊❤❤

Poland does not respect human rights, Poland created the "lgbt-free zones", the same Polish president Andrej Duda has said that gays are not people, just ideology. there is no legal protection for lgbt people from discrimination, besides that dozens of children have committed suicide due to the words of high political officials and the harsh environment that has been created towards the most vulnerable minorities.

It's common for TLDR news to have low quality, unchecked information.

It still was a russian colony.

तो पोलैंड यूएसएसआर से कैसा आजाद हुआ?

@@hkonhelgesen you're missing the point

exactly, I was looking for that comment!

No i dobrze myślałeś. Polska jest najsłabszą od 40lat. Polskie firmy zdychają. Wszystko kupują korporację.

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@@Barney1051 Obligatory comment to boost interaction and play de RU-vid algorithm

Shot fired

Ironically a decent chunk of those that voted for Brexit are because they wanted to prevent Polish people from moving to it. Yeah... that didn't work out like they thought it would.

Oh the Brits regret it! It’s taken 7 years, a pandemic, a war in Europe and a cost of living crisis for the brexiters to admit that it was an epic mistake! Yet the Brexit continues to Britons shame

🤣

"GiVe SoMe TiMe FoR bReXiT tO sHoW rEsUlTs"

Thanks mate! I live in Canada but I visited Ireland during my layover last summer. Absolutely stunning country, I was really impressed

I absolutely loved Ireland when I worked there 2006-2008 ...worked for DELL in Limerick

Poland was growing steadily before we joined the EU. Now It is estimated that for every €1 Poland receives, €0.75 goes back to EU. When we joined the EU thousands of businesses have been smothered by larger Western companies that had 60 more years to develop, while Poland had been exploited by Russia (who also executed most of Polish intelligence from the 2nd day of WWII attack on Poland) so we needed decades to educate new generation to replace patriots, teachers, doctors, scientists, lawyers who had been killed and could have made a massive difference and propel the country forward 60 years earlier. Going back to EU. To give example how EU funds work. Now we build park benches that cost €60-80k, half of it is funded by EU and Poland constituencies need to borrow the remaining €30-40k. This bench can then only be build by usually German business as they are the only ons who would meet the spec criteria (because they made the criteria). Before the EU this same park bench could have been built before the EU funds for €2k.. that's essentially how EU funds work in a nurse. Not to mention dismantling agricultural business like sugar and majority of brewery had been bought and literally dismantled and copper beer tanks sent to Germany..

@@eclecticaro Man who asked

@@eclecticaro Go bullshitting somewhere else

I fucking hate this and I see it all the time. The name "Soviet UNION" is so confusing for westeners. Most of think that the Eastern Block is the same as the USSR.

@@krisitak yeah it was Warsaw Pact. Big difference between say Belarus which was ussr

It's the usual sloppy TLDR.

@@krisitak same with equalling Soviet Union with Russia. Yes, Moscow was a dominant seat of power, but Russia was only just over 50% of the USSR's population.

Even in satelite states our elites and politicians were apointed by Moscow. All countries in eastern block were kinda "used". My grandpa told me stories how most things produced in Poland was exported to Russia with marginal profit. This shows on a graph how poor we were - just lile most countries from soviet block. And this is why we oppose Russia today so much. We do not want to bw used again.

Please delete second flag

@@pep-qew1977 are you alright?🤔

@@artursmalta8833 yes

​@@pep-qew1977it's the European flag , why you mad

@@blazer9547flag of EU - racist pro western europe organisation.

Niemcy nie zapłacili Polsce za zniszczenia bo dogadali się z zainstalowanym przez Stalina rządem komunistycznym. Ile za Polskę otrzymał Stalin od Niemców? Niemcy używają argumentu że otrzymaliśmy niemieckie ziemie na zachodzie Polski. Nie my to ustalaliśmy a Stalin, Roosevelt i Churchill.

well Poland and Russia obliterated Prussia out of existence, Poland too is not innocent and people seem to forget what Poland was like before its decline and eventual partition and annexation.

lol, what a bunch of BS. According to your logic Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, France and Britain should also apologise. So you have either never opened a history book in your life or you are just a bigot

@@jordanmason7127 Poland and Russia wiped out Prussia??? Do you know anything about Yalta, Tehran, Potsdam?

@@jordanmason7127 Poland won against the Ottoman empire, and Europe rewarded us for it

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​@David Greg stfu about god dude, enjoy your religion in private

Another inaccuracy was the lost percentage of GDP growth during the Corona crisis. Poland lost just as much as the other countries shown in the graph, bit as Poland has the highest GDP growth of all the countries shown in the graph, the part where it went negative was logically the smallest. But Poland still lost as much as the other states.

Yes, the "analysis" is naive, to say the least. I have written up a comment focusing solely on patent applications filed to the the European Patent Office in Munich, and the data shows beyond any reasonable doubt that the video's title, suggesting that Poland may become a European super-power, is completely delusional.

Polish kids are being taught to study by their parents just the way the Asian ones in China, Japan, Korea, etc. do. Interesting to see that Poland is in the last few PISA-results just behind these Asian countries, but way above all in Europe with exception of Finland and Estonia, which all are way above US, UK, France, Germany, etc.

Hey brother!

Maybe one day❤

ta kurwa a jajka po 14 zl dzieki polskim wyborcom glosujacym na zlodzieji z rzadu, ale co ty mozesz wiedziec jak mama kupuje

Yah the poles aren't cuddley and nice either. They got a pretty bloody history too

@DoubtingThomas Can you tell me about far right politics in 20th century? As far as I know we had the biggest population of Jews in the World back then and I think Jews wouldn't live in Poland if they would be persecuted XD

@@Aliballer Can you tell some concrete facts?

Thank you so much!!! Greetings from Poland!!!

@lazarus921 Yeah it's said we don't talk about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth more often :(

Any dictatorship wants power, power and more power. Democracy is the real power that benefit the people. I see in Poland an anti democratic and anti EU attitude! True that now Poland is essential in fighting Russia but when the war is over the EU should deal with Poland and Hungary. We have in NATO a dictator like Erdogan, isn't it enough!?

@@zahariachirica5466 1. Nobody cares what you think, especially if you're utterly wrong 2. Poland isn't anti-democratic. We were democratic in the XVIth century, and ooenly elected our kings, and have fought for democracy for the past 100 years since we regained our independence. If you think Poland is a dictatorship, you need to check your facts, and look at Russia, Belarus (especially) and China. Poland has a democratic government freely elected, twice in a row, conservative, because the alternative is a party that would halt Poland's growth and enslave it to the EU and Germany. We, the Poles, say fvck no to that. We are a major nation, have always been and will grow to our rightful place at the top of European importance podium.

@@zahariachirica5466 How is Poland anti democratic? The only thing is judiciary reform which all other post communist countries did and countries like Germany are still doing yet in Poland case it's called anti democratic because they just don't like the current government it's just hypocritical

I wish the eu would stop overpaying poland

@@christianschulz1443 what do you mean?

But we have one advantage when compared to Italy: they have euro, we don`t have it. Since Italy has euro italian economy is in stagnation. If nothing changes we can be equal within half of century.

@@elah1023 What are you on that you think that the development of the economy has to do with the euro or, to such a great extent? Why should you join the euro at all? hahahha The only reason why Italy is growing slower is because they are richer and their economy is much more developed. Italy built cars when Poland didn't even know what a light bulb was.

@@QuantumWaveMaster Italian economy started to slow after euro. Before that they were doing quite well and chasing Germany. Since euro Italy is basically in stagnation. Euro is good currency for Germany, Benelux and Austria perhaps.

@Wilhelm Eley Germanys population is decreasing rather than declining due to the government there opening the floodgates to hordes of illiterate 3rd world rabble. Such migratory moves of the great unwashed into european lands hasn't been seen on this scale since the fall of the Roman empire.

@Wilhelm Eley Germany is a giant in economic terms but a midget in politics. Germans fed the Russian monster for decades despite warnings from Poland about Russia's true nature. Europe must rely on the USA for its security mainly because of Germany's inability to recognise correctly what is happening now in the world. Germans are good at doing stuff but not so good in thinking.

Czech, Słowenia, Chiny lista jest naprawdę długa…

@@Kam7777 według OECD Polska 2 po Chinach jeśli chodzi o rozwój od lat 90 (wśród krajów OECD oczywiście)

Nikt "tak szybko" się nie rozwija, ale co z tego - 1% wzrostu PKB dla Niemiec to jest więcej jak 4% wzrostu dla Polski. Jak masz 100 zł i zarobisz dychę, to masz wzrost o 10%. Jak Twój kolega ma 10 000 i zarobi 100 zł to ma wzrost 1% - ale mimo tego jest to 10 razy więcej niż ty zarobiłeś. Polska nigdy nie "dogoni" zachodnich krajów, chyba ze te zachodnie kraje popadną w kłopoty gospodarcze. Różnica między gospodarką Polski, a np. Francji istnieje od ponad 2000 lat - nieprędko się to zmieni.

hahaha dobre

Jakoś mieszkam w rejonie, gdzie coraz większy syf. Drogi zarastają krzaczorami, że strach jeździć bo coraz więcej pijaków na drogach i jeżdżą środkiem. W polińskim państwie nawet nie ma osoby która by pozwoliła na wybijanie srok które zjadają małe ptaki, a te łapały muchy i komary. Nawet tak prostą rzecz jak wybicie srok to państwo nie jest w stanie zrobić. Siemianowice to upadek miasta, zresztą jak wielu innych. Pustostany wszędzie. U mnie na wiosce rzucili światłowód na słupy, ale już taka bieda w kasie, że barany nie mają pieniędzy na wycinanie drzew a te zarasają rowy przy drodze i już widzę, że przy większej wichurze światłowody im pozrywa. Może gdyby w Polsce pojawił się rząd jak w Tajlanii wpuszczający do kraju ludzi którzy mają na koncie >100.000$ to może by było coraz lepiej, ale mamy miliony biedackich sąsiadów którzy zwalili się na nasze głowy i żerują a za chwilę o nożownikach będzie jeszcze głośniej.

Poland isn't innocent if you want to criticise Hungary for its behaviour then it would only be fair to look at what the Polish government has been doing for the last few years, they are run by a socially backwards party and share many conservative ideals as Hungary.

speak in your name you warmonger. Europe is going down the drain and well deservedly so. As far as hungary, you have no business in judging us. Keep your uneducated opinions to yourself

Agreed, but I think the assertion was a slip of the tongue for 'subsumed into the Soviet bloc'.

@@johnleake5657 Normally I would give them the benefit of the doubt, but it's not the first time they've made that mistake. At the start of the video it says they gained independence from the USSR in the late 90s, which is doubly untrue, and they did an episode on Serbia where they said Yugoslavia was a close ally of the Soviet Union. I think they just might be a little unclear about who exactly was part of the Soviet Union, Warsaw pact and who were communist but not in either.

@@RealUlrichLeland most europeans and americans dont know either. And that is a major problem in these debates.

Warsaw Pact minus Romania in 1968. My mother was a student and she was called to civil army those days in case of invasion of Romania, too.

Even the outer empire were colonies. Poland was a russian colony.

Copernicus was born in Thorn, Prussia.

@@henningbartels6245 Copernicus was born in 1473 and Torun was part of Poland. Poland was very huge country with the capital of Cracow. He was son of Polish Merchants, when Copernicus was 11 years old, his father passed away, and he was raised after that by bishop Lucas Watzenrode. He was spoken Polish, German, Latin and Italian languages. He studied in Krakow, Padva. He work in Krakow (Cracow) and the Jagiellonian University of Krakow. Torun never belong to Prusia. Leter on after III partition of Poland 1795 between Rusia, Prusia and Austrio-Hungary, Poland was not on the mam and Torun was under Prusia till first war war.

@@marek-7607 well, this is your view. But when Copernicus was born in Thorn, the town was part of the Prussian confederation, a number of selfgovern cities which switch from the Teutonic Order to the Polish Crown in 1466, but with vast autonomy. This doesn't make these cities automatically "Polish". The King of England is also officially the head of Canada - this doesn't make Montreal automatically English or part of England. People in Thorn, especially in Copernicus' social class of wealthy merchants, spoke merely German. Copernicus was not only a scientist, but later had clerical and administrative functions and tasks in these cities in Prussia and Warmia were he must have used German on daily basis. To paint him all "Polish" might be a popular myth in Poland, but is only a onesided view and at best only a part of the truth.

You are right, it's not the same. The quality of life is lagging behind, but it's alsao slowly increasing.

Do you find LGBT-free zones and ban on abortion to be sound?? Are you from Utah?

@@pingvinai_irgi_zmones What are you talking about?

@@Ginjitzu I am talking about Poland, my guy

@@pingvinai_irgi_zmones And that has exactly what to do with all of the Polish people I know and work with and have framed my opinion of them being sound?

Czech GDP was much bigger before 1989. Acctually Czechia was one of the richest European east-block countries, Poland one of the poorest.

I would love that

​@@adriantwarowski175 Bulgaria was still worse I think, but that's about it. Even Ukraine was richer before the fall of communism

Behind Poland but definitely a rising power, that's for sure

@@adriantwarowski175 Poland is one of the richest too

Italy is a net contributor to the EU budget while Spain receives and sends to the EU budget an equivalent amount. Poland on the other hand is the biggest drag on the EU budget has received over 100 billion Euros in the last 10 years.

@@michaelotieno6524 Poland did not have a Marshall Plan after World War II like Germany, thanks to the help of the USA. Poland did not have overseas colonies on which some Western countries were getting rich (thanks to this, at least Poland has a clear conscience). Poland, on the other hand, had 44 years of inefficient communism that blocked its development. EU money is only part of GDP. I would like to remind you that Poland will also give back this money, becoming a net payer for some time.

but then you have Iran above you.

​@@rupert2019 Well actually we did had some history with it but it was very different from "standard colonialism", In fact i would recommend reading about Jacob Kettler.

@@marcinwitkowski217 I'm Polish, and I remember from history that Madagascar was proposed in Poland, but the Polish (I think the king?) refused. And all in all very good. And overseas colonies had countries located on the Atlantic Ocean.

Its a long march Bob, do u think our western and eastern brothers are not watching?

u ever heard of clickbait?

I do feel like Poland and it’s progress has been getting a bit overhyped as of late. I mean, it‘s a very commendable development, but still. It‘s almost like people are only now starting to pay attention to central and eastern Europe, after Ukraine got attacked.

@@DiskusGames Yeah, this will lead to exaggeration of our achievements and overreactions of the critics as well. Happy to hear that the Western world noticed that our region exists, but I'd hate to disappoint.

Poland was so underestimated for decades, even before the Ukrainian war, that talking about Real Polish achievements looks a little overhyped now. Everything told in the podcast is true

A very wise comment! Maybe this polish General who commented on MSNBC that the European gravitational center was moving more to Poland could learn from you. Looking forward to visit your beautiful country in coming summer by motorbike. I heard so many good things about its natural beauty as well as Krakow...

Love Hungary from Poland

Tylko Węgry nam pomogli . ❤❤❤ Nasi bracia