Did Poland take a much different path? I don't think so, your politics are comparable to politics of Hungary, at least it seems so. Was your industry less damaged by the privatisation or what?
HDI of Central Europe by regions
It is in Balkans in terms of geography but that doesn’t negate its cultural and historical Central European-ness
Last years of commie times in Poland were so bad that literally lots of people saw drastic improvement in lifes, not because Poland took different path just because communism in Poland was so shite, so it naturally rebounced.
Hungary kind of loves to lick Russia for some reason.
Apparently 2008 hit Hungary pretty badly too (source:couple magyars i know) while it had near to no impact here
They are living in on our wealth))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Also Poland must be burned and partitioned))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Yes, but until 2010, commies were charge of Hungary. In 1989 they replaced Moscow with Washington. Started to worship Neo-liberalism, they preached it as the holy gospel. They sold everything between 90-10. For some reason their neoliberal economics caused us to be poorer than Romania.
Please, consider the following...
>driving home to Brno after a week of hard work sitting in an office in Prague
>car breaks down mid way due to shitty shape of D1
>leave the car and look for help
>wolves tear you apart
>locals find your body and keep your wallet
>repeat
>Vysočina is now more rich than average
Also what I forgot to mention, I've been to Hungary multiple times and it seems very centered in Budapest, almost city state tier, all the highways and national railroads lead to Budapest, its like 15x bigger than the 2nd biggest city, so it makes perfect sense that its the most development part
The beauty of natural selection.
But still, the HDI of Budapest region is lower than HDIs of other capital regions on the map.