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Poland to help rural workers ‘doomed to oblivion and poverty’

14.09.2020 07:05
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced a support programme for people who once worked in the country’s communist-era state-owned farms.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Wojtasik

Morawiecki said that some villages whose residents worked for such farms “were doomed to oblivion and poverty" under previous governments in the 1990s and 2000s.

He added: "From next year, we are starting a support programme for villages in which there were state-owned farms. It is important to level the playing field for all residents of those villages that were painfully hit by the injustice” of Poland’s rapid transformation to a free market economy after the collapse of communism in 1989.

Morawiecki was speaking during a harvest festival on Sunday.

He thanked farmers for their work and praised them for cultivating Polish traditions.

(pk/gs)

Source: IAR/PAP