Over two decades after the fall of communism, only one-in-three Poles think the free market is better than a planned, centralised economy, finds a new poll.
The poll by CBOS, commissioned by the private Kozminski University in Warsaw, found that 33.4 percent judge a free market capitalist economy to be better than planned socialism.
Professor Krzysztof Zagorski, who drew up the survey, told the Rzeczpospolita daily that Poles expect the state to provide economic security and to fulfill a caring role. The poll found that 85 percent of Poles would like the government to provide citizens with a job (85 percent, 93 percent think that the state should have the function of creating jobs and 85 percent expect free
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