All this talk about economic life in the PRL reminded me of a chart, which reliably causes Ukrainian dupas to explode.
Poland went from being half the size of Ukraine, to 4X the size.
Another random number, is that Poland had a population of 35.1 million inhabitants in 1939, but the census of 14 February 1946 showed only 23.9 million inhabitants. That is, a reduction of around 33%.
On Feb. 1, 2022 - Ukraine supposedly had a population of 41.1M (including LDNR, but not including Crimea). This January, the Ukrainian National Institute of Demographics assessed the size of the population as between 28M and 34M. Basically - roughly the same size population reduction as suffered by Poland during WW2.
Ukraine has an economy 4X smaller than Poland's, and the same size of population as Poland had in 1939.

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