Poland's goal - overcoming the economic legacy of WW2

By Beata Daszynska-Muzyczka/ President of the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego Poland is one of those countries that have suffered the greatest losses in the course of the 20th century. Six million Poles were killed during WW2. As compensation for its Eastern Borderlands, Poland was given the ruined regions of Silesia and Pomerania. In the public's mind the utter tragedy of WW2 overshadows the fact that it was WW1 that had already left Poland as one of the most destroyed countries in the world, its industry lying in tatters. Following the second global conflict, Poland was cut off by the Iron Curtain….