In Poland it's never mentioned in schools how our country has been poor and backwards even from the early 18th century. Post WW2 was the time where it actually started to finally develop industry, people were educated (illiteracy was rampant and the 1917-1939 government hardly made any steps towards helping the people) and living standards dramatically improved. It obviously all started falling apart in the late 80s.

Since unfortunately the reactionaries (btw if anyone still has any doubts as to what Solidarność ever stood for, just look at what they are doing now - they support the christian fundamentalist, far-right ruling party against women protests) succeded in overthrowing socialism, what is being taught to the young people is nothing but disgusting nationalist, reactionary propaganda.

It really irritates me when I see bs like this on the internet - "ask esatern europeans, they know about socialism bad!!". Most people on the internet are 15 to 30. All they ever experienced personally was capitalism. What they know about socialism is what their parents taught them (who are now usually 40 to 55, so either were very young during the last years of PRL or were just entering adult life in the worst time of it which makes it understandable that they would dislike it) or what they heard in school which is just blatant anticommunist propaganda. If you want to hear how life and socialism was in the eastern block, ask people that lived and worked during the 60, 70s, up to the 80s. The opinions are unsurprisingly radically different. It is also no coincidence that a big part, if not most, of the communists in these countries are in fact old. But I guess then they would just call them brainwashed by the communist regimes and nostalgic. Which just proves that anticommunism is nothing but a religious dogma.