I am interested to know that -- I did not know it earlier. Am copying a few FRiends who are equally interested in gaining more knowledge
Thank you, daniel!
Davidson and Rees-Mogg have a point -- communism and socialism kept enslaved Eastern Europe, Russia, China, India, South-East Asia, etc.
you are also correct that the entire "war benefits the economy" is a conceit only holdable by residents of countries that were not turned into battlefields. --- I live in Warsaw now and we non-Poles never realise the level of destruction wrought on this nation (and others) during WWII. Warsaw was levelled -- pictures of it show a gigantic pile of ruin. Much of Poland was devastated by being the battlefield for two giant armies to run across. On every street corner in Warsaw one sees a monument saying "here on xxx date, Nazis killed yyy number of poles". The country was devastated, a quarter of it's population (Gentile and Jewish) was obliterated, it's industries destroyed, it's senior intelligentsia systematically targetted by the Nazis and the Soviets (think Katyn).
It took the Poles 40 years to recover (the Western countries with the exception of Germany was not devastated nearly as much), and the recovery was of course slowed down by communism
Again, glad to, Cronos. One thing can be said about the Poles: they're survivors. What we North Americans call "hell," they call "history."
Thanks for pinging me here. I too am learning much on this day.
I haven’t visited Poland yet, but I’m quite attracted to the Polish restaurants around the Chicago area. Very tasty.