you are absolute right, pullen has been successful. you have to start in 1989 when communism and regained independence paired the country was a mess. communism had failed. it was a poor country, and no believed that they could build free-market democracy. but they succeeded and they did so in spectacular fashion. liberals,s, centrists, conservative, all advanced a set of successful reforms. the gdp per capita went up between 300-400% in one generation. poland was a poor country but it is not now. that is a fabulous success. it was chinese levels of growth. it was done through democracy. that was astonishing. poland in foreign policy accompanied its domestic transformation into the west, nato first and then the european union. onre prosperity depends also integration with the open thepean economy and european union has been good for poland. it provides development assistance. successful been a story. it has been a success story of poland realizing freedoms and free-market reforms and integration with the west which was really what polan