Bradley, go to Poland sometime. (
Poland amounts to this. The historically German areas like Olstyn, Gdansk, Wroclaw are the Polish eqivalent of First World. The Polish areas administered for hundreds of years by the Germans, Cracow, Poznan etc. are Second World. The Polish areas historically administered by Russia ( the capital excepted) are third world. This remains true even after half a century of total Russian control. The Poles made a very very very very bad choice in 1939.
You are also aware that most of the folks in Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) moved there AFTER WWII. The German population was ethnically cleansed and moved to douche, er, deustchland. Same goes for most of the other formerly German cities in western Poland.
Besides, I thought that the whole "First World, Second World, Third World" thing died with the cold war.