Poland over the next fifteen years
In north-central Europe there lies a beautiful yet simple country, Poland. Throughout Poland’s history it faced many hurdles becoming an independent state. In the beginning of its development Poland was not a very strong country which provided great opportunities for power-thirsty countries. Unfortunately, this allowed “Russia, Prussia, and Austria to carry out a first partition of the country in 1772, a second in 1792, and a third in 1795. For more than a century thereafter, there was no Polish state, just Austrian, Prussian, and Russian sectors” (Poland). However, the Poles never truly gave up their independence and they regained power in the early part of the nineteenth century. Just as Poland was starting to get back on its feet Hitler invaded and he devastated the country killing its Jewish people and taking over the government. Once the terrorizing reign of Hitler ended “A new constitution in 1952 made Poland a “people's democracy” of the Soviet type. In 1955, Poland became a member of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, with its foreign policy identical to that of the USSR” (Poland). In the years after becoming a people’s democracy there was much political conflict and problems ensued with the attempt to change Poland’s economy to a market economy. Yet Poland managed to pull through and “By the early 1990s, more than half the Polish economy was in private ownership, while more than four-fifths of Polish shops were privately owned” (Davies). However now that Poland has gotten on its feet it is still a bit wobbly and faces a new challenge, growth. Despite a developing well-educated workforce and expanding economy, declining population and resulting labor shortage could derail Pola...
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