Sure. Sure, I'm orthodox, and yet out of two of us I seem to be the only one willing to be convinced I might be wrong or missing information.
Poverty skyrocketed after the dissolution of socialism.
Like talking to a wall.
Bankrupt country. Forced to repay old loans to be able to make new ones. The poverty rates skyrocketed for 5 years. Then it became lower than during most of USSR occupation.
Go fucking grab a Polish source from the USSR occupied Poland.
Fuck, I can name some for you, you just need to go to the damn library because I no longer have it at my home:
- Warunki życia ludności w latach 1981-1985, Warszawa 1986
And read fucking there the poverty rate in Poland by Polish standards in the 1980 were oscillating between 10 and 26% depending on the year in PPP.
In 1989 it was about 15% IIRC (other source obviously).
Now it's been > 5% for ~two decades in the source you linked previously?
During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework
Dude. That was outside USSR. We were inside. The sources from that era I cited were from inside the USSR.