>>2262229The main issues people have with PRL were how stagnating, piss poor poland was, antitheism of the party (warranted but tactless and criminal at times), and corruption.
After PRL ended, SLD (democratic-left coalition) quickly took power, look at the chart, they were agressively neoliberal, anti-welfare, criminal ("suicide" of Lepper), massively corrupt, allowed for cia torture prisons to run in Poland, people rightfully hate them but in the bounceback after the third-way "left" failed so miserably right-wing talking points made people lean into "anti-communist resistance" historiography, the people who remember SLD are anti-left, most don't remember communism.
The ones that remember communism are old, and don't struggle with the biggest fuckups of capitalism (housing, alienation, gig economy), they see that life is better here now than then, they arent the militant anticommunists.