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>Also worth noting: Poland didn't receive a dime of reparations after the War. Poland received virtually all of the lands that were considered Prussia though.
by mamonster 5mo ago
>Also worth noting: Poland didn't receive a dime of reparations after the War.
Poland received virtually all of the lands that were considered Prussia though.
- 4ashJu 5mo agoIndeed it received Pomerania and the industrial center Silesia. Russia got East Prussia. Probably worth more than the EUR 1 trillion fantasy figure that Polish right wingers demand.
- inglor_cz 5mo agoIt also "received" several million of its own people killed, including the highly educated Jewish community. While we are crunching numbers, let us not forget that loss of human capital matters in economy as well.
- lo_zamoyski 5mo agoIf you peer into the (un-tendentious) history of much of those lands, you might take a slightly different view of them and their role and importance in Polish history, culture, language, and statehood, beyond just the 20th century... But perhaps more to the point, Poland lost nearly half of its prewar territory, east of the Curzon line. Poland is territorially smaller today than it was before WWII.
- selimthegrim 5mo agoAs is alluded to by others, you might want to look into the disposition of those lands before 1100 or so