Poland, which was not allowed to happen

Imagine Poland in which planet War II did not break out. Poland, which was not burned, was not looted, was not slaughtered. Poland, which did not gotta start from scratch, from knees, from ruins. Imagine a country that could decision forward – without six million graves underfoot.

We were a young, ambitious Republic. We had the Central Industrial District, developing Gdynia, 1 of Europe's strongest armies, dynamic cities, increasing science, art, industry. Our GDP grew at a rate of 6-8% per year. Another minute – and Poland could have been the power of Central Europe.

Without war, not Germany, not 1 September – present we could be a country of 60 million citizens. There wouldn't be a demographic hole. There wouldn't be empty places after doctors, teachers, engineers. 39% of Polish doctors, 33% of teachers, 30% of professors would not be killed. Our elite would not be murdered – only she would build the future.

Warsaw – not rebuilt from rubble – would present be a metropolis with a population of 4–5 million. A shining modernity like Seoul, rooted in past like Vienna. Lviv – the second academic centre after Krakow, with university and university in the first hundredth of the world. Vilnius – not as a symbol of loss, but as a spiritual center of northeastern Mazovia.

If it wasn't for the war, we wouldn't have lost more than half the infrastructure. No 5948 km of railway tracks, 15,000 km of roads, 47767 metres of bridges would be destroyed. No 1,400 locomotives were burned, no 83,000 cars were dismantled. 63% of industrial plants were not demolished. 3.9 million cattle, 5 million pigs and 75 million mills of wood were not stolen.

The dynamic economy has not been turned into a burnt earth. If not for war – Poland could have GDP of 2–2.5 trillion dollars today. We'd be in G7. possibly in G5. alternatively of chasing the West, the West would look at us as we catch up with the future.

66% of museums, 43% of libraries, 4880 schools, 352 hospitals, 778 clinics would not be destroyed. No 2.5 million people would be taken out for forced labour. 196,000 children would not be kidnapped for Germanization. Hundreds of thousands wouldn't be thrown into transports, camps, death pits. 3 million Polish Jews in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bełżec would not be gassed. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Palmira, Wola, Ponarach would not be shot. There was no shed sea of blood – blood that was to live, create, build.

If not for war – Polish culture would be 1 of the strongest in Europe today. alternatively of rebuilding national heritage, we would make fresh ones. It is possible that the movie festival in Gdynia would be the second Cannes today. possibly literary awards would be called "Reymonts". possibly more Nobel laureates would talk Polish.

If not for war – Poland would not gotta ask for anything. She wouldn't gotta accept stones alternatively of justice. There would be no request to remind the planet that we were murdered, robbed, betrayed.

Because all that is not there – everything that was burned out, struck out, gassed, stolen – is not just the past. This is simply a life that has been stripped of the right to make it happen. These are the possibilities that have been brutally interrupted.

This is Poland, which had no right to happen due to the fact that Germany decided that we do not deserve it. Therefore, erstwhile Berlin proudly plans to put a 30-ton stone in the motion of "memoration", we are not moved. due to the fact that that stone doesn't weigh as much as six million lives. It doesn't mean as much as the full country we were going to build. He doesn't deserve to cover the truth. due to the fact that this fact can't be covered.

That's why all time individual asks, "Why are you going back to this war?", it's worth answering straight: due to the fact that it never truly ended. Not for us.

It wasn't over for our grandparents, who had been taken distant the chance to live in a country that was expected to grow alternatively than burn. Who, alternatively of developing farms, businesses, discipline – buried their loved ones, hid in the woods, died in death factories and camps, returned from the fronts not to their homes – but to ruins.

It did not end for our parents – raised in postwar poverty, with stories about what was and will never return. In the Polish People's Republic – a country that itself fought against the memory of free Poland. Who didn't inherit their property due to the fact that they were burned. They didn't grow household businesses due to the fact that they were nationalized. They did not travel, they did not build, but they dreamed – under censorship with a sickle and a hammer.

And it's not over for us. due to the fact that our full generations – children of war, grandchildren of ruins – have spent decades focusing on 1 thing: to survive. Catch up with the others. Rebuild. Catch up. And only sometimes, in better moments – effort to scope for something more.

But that "more" was taken from us before we were born. We've been taken distant from our perspective. The imagination was taken, the belief that we could be first, not just "catching up." The continuity of the generational acquis, trust in the state, the elite, the community was taken away. We've been interrupted. They said to start from scratch.

And that's why we won't forget. due to the fact that it wasn't just a crime against our ancestors. It was a crime against our future. And the future is simply a thing that cannot be taken away. Not a rock.
Today we have people behind the control again, who will not only not let Poland happen, but will destruct even the hope that it could always happen.

(LEMINGOPEDIA 3.0)