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I'm from Poland.
The source you quoted says that USSR wasn't imperialistic.
Polish economy during occupation by USSR was drained, we were forced to send goods to the Mother Russia like crazy, without compensation. We had local shortages, so that Moska could benefit. If that's not imperialistic exploitation to you, we have nothing to talk about, because you're crazy.
The USSR was not Imperialist, see again:
Users like @[email protected] can offer more insight on Poland as it related to the USSR, but to claim that the USSR was Imperialist is wrong. Calling me "crazy" for having consistency is just a way to avoid the original subject, which was your claim that the PRC is Imperializing Africa, which is also wrong. Now that you were caught out, you pivot to another direction hoping you can coast by on being Polish, when I've spoken to other Polish users and done study on my own that leads me to disagree with you.
If the argument you're making is that Poland wasn't exploited by USSR, because USSR wasn't exporting capital, but goods, then that's a strawman at best. Export of goods by the prices dictated by USSR (at 10% of value at the time), in amounts dictated by USSR, isn't an
export of capital? Imperialistic country is a country that has colonies. Colony is a territory exploited by the "owning" country. Trying to make distinctions in that paradigm is pointless at best, malicious at worst.I pivoted the discussion to Poland (PRL) because the source you quoted blatantly LIED about it. If it's blatantly lying about USSR, why would I trust anything else whitewashing other countries?
In 1956, when First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Gomułka was summoned to Moscow, he made some secret notes (that are now public) counting what infrastructure did Moscow stole (as in - took apart, moved to USSR) from Poland (by 1956!):
Source - Rolicki "Gierek", pages 110-120 summarize Gomułka notes (Rolicki is a very pro-PRL historian).
No, Prolewiki did not lie about the USSR, nor about Imperialism. You are trying to invent a new definition of Imperialism in order to make your original claims correct now that they have been proven wrong. Further, the Polish People's Republic saw great success from inclusion into the Soviet system. It was fraught with problems like nationalism conflicting with the overall internationalist Socialist economy, but despite that it saw dramatic improvements economically, as well as in metrics like life expectancy and literacy rates.
I am not sure what you mean by "stolen." It doesn't seem to me that a factory can be picked up and moved across state lines, nor does it elaborate on what happened with these and why. As the Poland People's Republic was a part of a far more planned economy, it's important to look at why these movements took place, and if we look at the linked article, Socialist Poland saw rapid economic development as being a part of the system.
Gomułka was at one point arrested for right-deviationist nationalism, which helps cement that this isn't an unbiased report by any stretch. To my understanding, Poland's history with nationalism made the PPR disjointed, as well as the fact that it didn't truly have its own revolution, but was more folded into the Socialist system, and as such the right-wing nationalists fought against the Socialist system.
I recommend speaking to Polish communists about this, if you're just going to denounce everything I say as lies.
So the wiki you quoted is the bible and any source saying otherwise is right-deviationism nationalism or otherwise anti socialist element. Or heresy.
Exactly this.
We don't know, USSR didn't tell us.
Wealth. Industry. Money.
Hahahaha. We would literally be better off getting the full restitution from Germany. Instead USSR took it too, and told us they will lend us about 15% of it to rebuild.
To be fair, some new technology from USSR was licensed to Poland, but it was expected that the goods will be paid as tribute ("Sold" to USSR at the value below production cost. Source: again, Rolicki pro-PRL historian).
Poland was given to USSR as tribute. We never had a revolution, nor did we want to join USSR. We were broken by Nazis and then finished off by Ruskich. Unless you count everybody as right wing nationalist, Polish people had enough bad history with Russia to not want to be under them.
But this is pointless. To you I'm right wing nationalist or something, to me you're romanticising USSR, inventing "facts" left and right. You quote a form of wikipedia made by ???, I quote left-wing pro-PRL historian who remembers and read official documents.
Prolewiki is not a "bible." It's a sourced collaborative effort to create a wikipedia that isn't dominated by western and Capitalist bias. Check the sources.
You don't know why. You simply don't have the answers, so you're making them up and inserting them as facts based on what you think is most likely. Socialist Poland saw rapid economic development because of Socialism, along with improvements in women's rights, life expectancy, literacy rates, and more.
You personally are anti-communist, yes, given your anti-communism. I'm inventing precisely nothing, here, you've invented definitions. Prolewiki cites its sources, if you question them you can follow the sources.