Most of them did eventually (usually after a period of significant decline lasting from 1990 until somewhere between 1995 and 2005). Countries like Serbia or Ukraine are still below 1989 levels.
Poland has this narrative that it is among the most successful post-soviet states, and sure, it is. It still had up to 20% unemployment (not even including the people who didn't even look for work anymore) until the mid 2000s, a crime wave, sustained emigration, widening rural-urban divides and the like.
Also, the Socdems (still with the reputation of being "the communists") got 41% in the 2001 election, compared to 13% of the second placed party. The SLD of the time turned out to be ruled by a bunch of neoliberal technocrats like Marek Belka who had no interest in reversing the reforms of the 90s. Meaning, they got owned by the fash in the 2005 election, who (after a stint in power by the libs in the early 2010s) are currently ruling the country.
Lassiez-Faire policies have led to stagnation in the country, and growth was usually fueled by people sending money from jobs in the west, or like more recently, returning and building shitty suburbs. It's most poles' dream to have a house with a garage, garden and isolated from the rest of society, so they build cookie cutter houses on the outskirts of towns, or where there's fuck all en masse.
Economic activity is there, I suppose. Making cheap light industry goods for western buyers (so that the German doesn't need to buy German made products, because Polish ones are cheaper) and a fuckton of transportation companies.
It's a country where people are taught to hate and distrust one another. After all, what's a stranger other than someone who wants to take advantage of you? It's not surprised the brainworms there are extra strong. Though I suppose the fear of "handouts" has lessened a bit more recently with PiS' natalism bucks and other social programs fitting the traditionalist worldview.
Estonia is a racist neoliberal hellhole that banned the Communist Party, so they may actually be right.
There is the Estonian United Left Party, Which got 2,3% in this year's election (its best ever result), but at least at first glance it seems like a thinly veiled Pro-Russian party instead of anything Socialist.
I don't speak Estonian or Russian, so a likely biased Wikipedia Article is all I have without delving deeper into research.
There's also the Disco Elysium people.
I am skeptical about any European party that has ”Left” in its name.
The Disco Elysium people are some of the few good Estonians.
I am skeptical about any European party that has ”Left” in its name.
Yeah, they're usually radlibs.
some of the few good Estonians.
Yeah, not a fan of "one of the good ones" rhetoric, sorry.
Hierarchy of Racism Advocate 🇬🇧🇮🇳🇧🇩
I’m not going to let my habit of fact checking leftists on economics get in the way of a Russian-Estonian racist getting ratioed tbh. Being an anti immigration European racist is a worse crime to me than bad takes on economics or economic historyAt first I was like "this guy is two years away from becoming a leftist" but then I noticed that he baselessly inserted the word "Russian" in there, so maybe he has a bit more work to do than that.
"The global South can't forgive us for being peaceful, prosperous, egalitarin and successful"
The forgiveness can start when European threats, extortion, theft, brutality and violent foreign intervention comes to an end.
Thank you for your worthless opinion, now face the wall:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
Your grandparents participated in the Holocaust on the side of the nazis
Taiwan and RoK did most of their economic growth under literal dictatorships. All three received massive amounts of aid from the US during the 20th century.
https://twitter.com/EstoniaVotes/status/1666971706408288256
lol, mask off. :estonia-cool:
is this an official government account? it sounds awfully like the EU foreign policy chief Josep "Goebbels" Borrell saying "Europe is a garden and rest of world is a jungle"
https://mronline.org/2022/10/19/in-neocolonial-rant-eu-says-europe-is-garden-superior-to-rest-of-worlds-barbaric-jungle/
The West is losing their stranglehold on the world and they are going mask off more and more.
The Philippines at least has a literal communist insurgency. What hope is there for the poor part of the Reddit Belt?
Poorland
Poland? That's some 2014-level r/Polandball insult.
Yes the pinoys maybe bootlickers for the anglos and pope but they are not as bad as the three stooges.
