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Thank you Lukasz, I really appreciate your information. You are right - it's good there is competition of ideas.

I once had a discussion with a man who claimed he was the socialist candidate here in the U.S. (On a Yahoo! Chat). The way I put it to him is this: Socialism sounds great! Everyone sharing, nice big happy family! (LOL) The only problem is that people being people there will always be someone or a group of people that think they should be in charge. Government always contains some element of corruption as you pointed out, that's the same across the world. If socialism is instilled as the country's "way" eventually someone will come along to take advantage of it and use the laws in place to the people's disadvantage.

I'm glad to hear that things are still improving. I do know that the situation in Poland is infinitely better than it was under Soviet rule.

Again, I'm glad you answered in the spirit the question was posed. I think I understand the situation much better now. I've still got to do some educational research on my part. When I graduated in 1990 the Vietnam War wasn't even in our textbooks yet!?! )o: I've got to do some more studying on my part of the 1980s (when I was too young to fully understand) and the 1990s (when I was busy raising my babies!).

One good thing: At least in Poland they come right out and say they are Socialists! (o:

One good thing: At least in Poland they come right out and say they are Socialists! (o:

In fact they aren’t socialists, as well as they aren’t communists, generally they don’t have any specific views or ideals. They just wanted and still want to be in the top of pyramid.

Most people in the west don't realize how political situation in Poland really looks like. What do you think about Walesa ? Hero ? Yes, definitely he was a hero in 80's, but he just wasn't a good President, he wasn't better than current president Kwasniewski, who is a former commie. The same about the last one Parliamentary elections in 2001 - right wing parties lost - why ? Because their government was really bad. Left wing parties (including some former commies) won - why ? Because it seemed that they will be better - they aren't, so they will loose in a few months. In the last one elections in 2001 I didn't vote at all, because I didn't want to vote for leftists and right wing was in a really bad shape. I could only laugh when after those elections I read in foreign media that Poles want to be ruled one more time by communists. Now I care little about what those people were doing in 80's, I care more about what they want to offer us in the current situation and it isn't always so simple that everyone is good, who claim he is a right wing politician.