Poland 2004

Poland People

Poland is a country located in Central Europe, bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and Lithuania, Russia, and Kaliningrad Oblast to the northeast. It has a population of over 38 million people and covers an area of 312,679 square kilometers. Poland is a parliamentary democracy with a President as its head of state. Its capital city is Warsaw.

Poland has a long history dating back to the Middle Ages when it was divided among various kingdoms. It was unified in the 10th century and became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569. After being partitioned by Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Russia in 1772 it eventually regained independence in 1918 after World War I. Since then Poland has experienced both periods of stability and turbulence as it navigated its way through communism under Soviet control until 1989 when it became a democratic nation again. See countries that begin with P.

Poland is known for its rich cultural heritage that includes art, music, literature and cuisine which have been influenced by its geographic location between Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Its economy is mainly based on agriculture but also includes heavy industry such as automotive manufacturing as well as technology services such as software development. Tourism is also an important sector with more than 15 million visitors each year visiting attractions such as Krakow’s Old Town or Auschwitz concentration camp memorial site.

Yearbook 2004

Poland. According to CountryAAH, the total population in Poland is 37,846,622 people in 2020. Prime Minister Leszek Miller resigned in March as leader of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) after his party collapsed in opinion polls. When nearly 30 MPs left SLD to form a new party, Miller announced that he would step down as head of government as well. The high unemployment rate of around 20%, several corruption scandals and failed health care reforms had lowered confidence in the government to a very low level. Miller chose to resign the day after Poland joined the EU on May 1.

Poland People

Land area 312,685 km²
Total population 38.282.325
Residents per km² 122.4
Capital Warsaw
Official language Polish
Income per capita $ 29,600
Currency Zloty
ISO 3166 code PL
Internet TLD .pl
License plate PL
Telephone code +48
Time zone UTC UTC + 1, daylight saving time UTC + 2
Geographic coordinates 52 00 N, 20 00 O

President Aleksander Kwaśniewski nominated former Finance Minister Marek Belka as new Prime Minister. The foreign-educated economist Belka had most recently served as chief adviser on the economic reconstruction of Iraq. As one of America’s most faithful allies in Iraq, Poland led a multinational force in the southern part of the country. Around 2,400 Polish soldiers were stationed in Iraq. Marek Belka barely had a job as head of government before he lost a vote in parliament in mid-May and was forced to resign. The majority in Parliament demanded a fresh election, but President Kwaśniewski reappointed him as prime minister. Belka’s left-wing government was finally approved by Parliament in June. Seven of Miller’s government ministers remained in Belka’s cabinet. According to abbreviationfinder, PL stands for Poland in text.

In Poland’s first elections to the European Parliament, the SLD government party received very low support and took only five of Poland’s 54 seats. The Liberal Citizens’ Platform succeeded best with 15 mandates, while the EU-critical parties Self-Defense and the Polish Families Alliance together took 16 mandates.

In June, Jacek Kuroń, who in the 1980s, was a key figure behind the democracy movement in Poland. He co-founded the free trade union movement Solidarity and staged the talks between the opposition and the regime in 1989 that paved the way for the fall of communism in Poland and throughout Eastern Europe. Jacek Kuroń turned 70.

This year’s autumn storms had severe consequences in Poland. About ten people were killed in the unusually strong storms that advanced across the country. Among those killed was a six-month-old child who received a falling tree over his pram in a park in Warsaw.

President Kwaśniewski was given a prominent international role at the end of the year, when he successfully acted as a mediator in the political crisis that arose in neighboring Ukraine after the November presidential election there.

General information about Poland

Poland is named after a Polan tribe living in the area in the early Middle Ages. The name of the polanes is possibly derived from the word pole (field). Poland was one of the most powerful countries in Central Europe in the middle of the last millennium. It has many times been conquered and shared by neighboring countries. From 1955 until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Poland belonged to the Warsaw Pact. In 1999, Poland joined NATO and the European Union in 2004. Despite many conquerors, Polish culture and language have remained their own. The influence of the Catholic Church is strong in Poland.

Poland is an affordable travel destination. The currency is the Polish zloty. The modern shopping malls of the cities are spectacular but in addition to them it is worth heading to the winding streets of the old parts of the cities. There are a lot of small shops in these areas where you can make surprising discoveries.
It is also worth exploring Polish food culture on the way. Tasty soups, pies, steaks and cabbage dishes are typical of Polish cuisine. See act-test-centers.com for study in Poland.

WW2

By the outbreak of the war in September 1939, the old, deep internal divisions had been forgotten. The Poles fought valiantly. The military was strong, but completely outdated. Socially and economically, Poland was also weak at the outbreak of the war. The country had not recovered after the world crisis, and despite certain attempts at industrialization and planning economy – the construction of the port city of Gdynia and the central Polish industrial zone – Poland was still a backward agricultural country at the outbreak of the war.

World War II became the biggest disaster in Polish history. It required six million deaths – half of them of Jewish descent. Warsaw was totally destroyed after a tragic uprising in 1944. In collaboration with the London government, an impressive resistance movement was developed under the civilian leadership, with the National Army as a military body. During these years, when the Poles hovered in daily danger, they succeeded in building an illegal counter-state with schools, universities and even a thriving illegal cultural life. Part of the prize was legal demoralization. Black stock exchange and economic sabotage were used, which had unfortunate consequences for post-war social morality.

From 1942 a communist resistance movement arose. Its trump card was the support of the Russians. However, the experiences of the hard Stalinist occupation of the East Pole (1939-41) were not forgotten, and the communists remained a small minority among a people who continued to see with the deepest skepticism of the neighbor in the east.

Also, the attempt to liberate the capital before it through the Warsaw uprising. red army moved in ended with defeat – i.e. because the Russians did not support the uprising. An important part of the young non-communist elite died, and the real power base slipped over to the left-wing Lublin government, which was established on July 22, 1944. Despite Russian assaults – especially against activists in the National Army – the Lublin government’s public-front policy yielded results. Under the leadership of Wladislaw Gomulka and the later Polish leader of the Stalinist period (1948-55), Boleslaw Bierut, in the first period the government pursued a relatively open policy and gained ever wider support. The big industry was nationalized.