Notably, raising prices, holding down wages and similar measures provoked large-scale labor unrest but not measurable improvement in economic performance under the regimes of Gierek, Kania and Jaruzelski.

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It represents the very worst of the financial arrangements between West and East similar to the large West German credits extended in 1979 to the doomed Gierek regime in Poland that were uncollectible.

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