People's Poland pursued the positivistic ideas of the 19th century of the "progress of civilization of the folk masses", i.e. universal education, the eradication of poorness (the interwar village lived mostly in utmost poverty), the spread of wellness protection and culture.
How did we want to accomplish this? Through the embezzlement of peasants (the alleged agricultural reform) and industrialisation: manufacture was to absorb the demographic surplus of the village and to produce massively inexpensive goods and pay advanced taxes (direct and indirect) which were to finance 2 major public services: universal education and free wellness protection. It should be recalled that this program was partially intended to be implemented already in the interwar period; in the end, both the walsudians and the government elites from 1944 to 1989 were left-wing and anti-capitalist. The condition for the success of this plan was "full agriculture" (who remembers this concept today?) of a million dwarf peasant farms, that is, the liquidation of an archaic, even medieval agrarian structure, in which the non-investment and economically inefficient large landowner farms prevailed (often falling behind with taxation payments). simply put: Polish socialists during the period of the People's Poland called "communists" wanted Polish educated technicians or engineers to work in a mill and live in the city, have access to wellness care, and erstwhile a year go on vacations to the mill resort. On the another hand, the West wanted him to work seasonally on a collection of proverbial asparagus in a rapidly depopulating Old Europe.
By 1989, the left-wing plan had been better or worse implemented. I remind you that until present 90% of the electricity produced in Poland comes from power plants built in People's Poland. After this year, erstwhile we voluntarily surrendered to the Western curate (without the remainder of “we belong to the West”), that is, submission to our protectors became the primary rule of abroad and interior policy, with our own hands we destroyed an crucial part (mostly?) of manufacture and agriculture; with peculiar rigour the State Farms, which existed mainly on the Recovered Lands (interesting why?). By causing mass unemployment and widespread poverty, more than 1 million people were pushed abroad, meaning the intent of the West was realized: a Polish engineer had to collect asparagus or work on a proverbial dishwasher in London. The demographic collapse of the Indigenous People of Old Europe in the last 30 years and the mass influx of immigrants from Asia and Africa have helped to improve the position of Polish economical refugees: they were given a better occupation than the proverbial Negroes, although they had to further reconcile to inferior position in those societies.
The stories about the Norwegians' relation to Polish immigrants are shocking, confirming one more time the malicious message that our compatriots in Old Europe are “Murzinas, only white”. It can only be added to the consolation that there are exceptions to this rule, which favour our assimilation abilities and fast failure of identity. Although 2 million Poles live in Germany, they do not have the position of a national number (in the interwar period there was a Union of Poles in Germany – even under Hitler). Further pressing of successive waves of economical emigration from Poland is no longer needed, due to the fact that the reserve of cheaper (and white) labour for Old Europe is now Ukraine: the longer the war with Russia will continue, the more desperate refugees will come.
And we come to the main subject of this cycle, or Polish-Russian relations. Russia's attack on Ukraine and the war already over 3 years old gave the Old Europe (also partially new) an extraordinary origin of comparatively safe (and mass) labour immigration, which reduced or postponed the process of pressing fresh immigrants from Poland. The longer our war continues, the longer this pause takes. From Ukraine, you can compression at least 5 million people willing to work, and everyone (although nobody says it loudly) is afraid of peace in the East due to the fact that there was created the largest (in Russian) army, in addition having as the only combat experience. It will be a threat to all possible opponents (and allies).
Prof. Witold Modzelewski
Think Poland, No. 39-40 (28.09-5.10.2027)
