Relegated for most of the communist period, he refined his free market ideas in a political vacuum.

A metro was planned in the communist period, but the impractical project was mothballed after the Velvet Revolution.

This is why workers and managers inherited from the socialist- communist period can never function properly in a Capitalist ambience.

Most of them, like the Kolontar plant, were products of rapid industrialisation and minimal environmental protection during the communist period.

After years of political and economic turbulence in the post- communist period, Tusk turned Poland into an island of stability in a volatile region.