The Polish Experience

by Nicholas Westerby

Globalization led to the end of the Cold war. Russia and America no longer had an appetite to destroy each other’s interests. After the fall of the Berlin Wall Europe opened its arms to former Soviet countries and in 2004 the European Union welcomed nine new countries into its group. The borders were open and Western Europeans feared a flood of Eastern European immigrants. The Eastern Europeans should have been worried about the flow of Western Europeans into their countries A...