The Polish GDP Miracle That Wasn’t
4 min readMar 24, 2022
Ukraine was on track to repeat Poland’s miraculous doubling of its GDP. Vladimir Putin robbed the nation and its people of that future.
“As everywhere, life in the Ukraine before this invasion wasn’t without its challenges,” says Olena Shevchenko when asked about her life in Ukraine prior to February 24, 2022. “But over the last 10 years, there had been a real transformation. Our lives were very normal…