Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> On 11/22/2020 3:21 PM, Bryan Simmons wrote:
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> > Poles ain't the smartest folks on the planet, but they make a damned good
> > remover.
> > https://www.amazon.com/OPI-Polish-Re.../dp/B001RVFZQU
> >
> > --Bryan
> >
> Yeah, that Copernicus guy was not very smart. Sabin's vaccine still
> works and Werner von Braun was born in Poland.
> https://www.thefamouspeople.com/polish-scientists.php
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> Hitler wanted to wipe out the Polish scientists along with the Jews
> becasue he knew they could outsmart him.


Don't forget the Solidarity trade movement that - along with the influence of Polish Pope John Paul II - led to the utter failure of USSR - enforced communism in the central/eastern European states in 1989, and the dissolution of the USSR itself in 1991.

Poland had the first free elections in postwar communist Europe in summer 1989, by November the Berlin Wall fell, the Czechs and others threw off the evil communist yoke, and the world is a much better place for all that. The world owes the brave Poles a HUGE debt of gratitude for starting that process of toppling the evil commie rat ******* dominoes...

Additionally, during the 2008 - 2009 world economic crisis, not only was Poland fairly unaffected, but the Polish economy also grew at a decent rate. Not too shabby for what Bryan refers to as "not the smartest folks on the planet"...Poland has done very well in the past 30 years, they went from a poor communist backwater to an advanced modern industrial nation:

Wiki: "Poland is classified as a high-income economy by the World Bank and ranks 21st worldwide in terms of GDP (nominal) as well as 24th in the 2017 Ease of Doing Business Index. Poland has a highly diverse economy that ranks 21st in the 2016 Economic Complexity Index. The largest component of its economy is the service sector (62.3.%), followed by industry (34.2%) and agriculture (3.5%)..."

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