Interesting paralell to Poland here. We DO have educated and quite healthy proletariat even now plus good infrastructure (at some places at least), but we got basically colonized and the neoliberal dogma that was thrown upon us by the western institutions plus the vigilant guard of ruling compradors actively prevent leveraging that potential. Instead of a country that was at some point around 10th productive economy in world we are now stuck in limbo between service based nonsense and assembly yard for old EU.