Poland Success Explained | Foreign Aid Is Racist | Tunisia 2

by Panzer
Ladies and Gentlemen… foreign aid is racist.
Not the idea of it, but the way it works in practice.
Money given to poorer countries can have incredibly positive results, but countries are treated
radically differently just because of where they are, and who is being helped.
Let’s take a look at one very prominent example.
In October of 2018 Poland passed an important milestone.
The goal posts are obviously somewhat arbitrary, and the criteria depends on the organization,
but according to the FTSE, a London based financial news service, Poland officially
became a developed country.
It is no longer an emerging economy.
Poland has made extraordinary progress.
It only freed itself from centuries of oppression by Germans, Austrians and Russians in 1918.
Then the catastrophe of World War II was followed by 44 years of Communist mismanagement.
Back in 1989 Poland was a wreck, environmentally and economically.
Making it to the ranks of developed countries in just 29 short years of frantic reform is
amazing.
I don’t want to sell this accomplishment short in any way.
What the Polish people have acheived is extraordinary.
It’s a model that all developing countries should try to emulate.
But what I have a problem with is the way this accomplishment is being used by certain
people with certain agendas.
Recently, an alt-right YouTube personality I’m not going to dignify by naming, used
a trip to Poland to come out as a white supremacist.
If you’re not familiar with some of the important details of Poland’s progress,
it can be easy to fall into this trap.
The argument goes kind of like this…
Poland is the highest flier, but most of the formerly Communist countries of Eastern Europe
have made similar progress.
Millions of people in these countries were slaughtered during World War Two, and many
of the most important cities were destroyed.
For four decades after that, the Countries of the Eastern Bloc weren’t just mismanaged,
their economies were actively subjugated to the economic benefit of the Soviet Union.
They were arguably just as oppressed as any colonized country in Africa or Asia, and they
became independent much more recently.
Yet just three decades later they’re mostly democratic, and in much better shape economically
than most of the African, Asian and Latin American countries that are constantly whining
about the legacy of Imperialism.
Is there something different about these Eastern European Countries?
I’m just asking questions here.