Memes

it's shaped by that environment, repeating familiar nationalist narratives instead of engaging seriously with the material history.

This. From my experience our commies neglected educating the masses in even basic marxsim, to such a degree that it has done imo more damage than early liberal brainwashing of 90's. No general strike during shock therapy, Balcerowicz running unoppossed, nothing. In fact the last wave of large protests was in 1988.