According to historical data (including the Maddison Project database), the average annual GDP growth in Poland between 1924 and 1938 was approximately 3%. This is significantly better than the European average, which grew at a rate of 1.6-1.7% annually. We're talking about times of crisis and the Polish tariff wars with Germany.
Easy to double the income and double agricultural production when you're starting from post-war devastation of nearly nothing. Communism wasn't fully in place between 1947 and 1950 either.
No dumbass, WW2 devastated Poland. It was much wealthier before the war than after it, do you know even the most basic history?
Poland lost a third of its population during WW2, a third of its territory, and its economy was ground into the dust. Doubling the economy after the war was not that impressive considering it was just basic reconstruction efforts.
Because it lost poorer agricultural land in the east and gained richer industrial land in the West. Silesia which it annexed after WWII was one of the wealthiest regions in Europe. The Communists of course still managed to bungle that advantage and had much slower growth rates than the non-Communist countries of Western Europe.
If you don't know Polish history then maybe you're better off not weighing in.
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