Krzysztof Ostaszewski is a native of Lodz, Poland. He is now a professor of mathematics and the director of the actuarial program at Illinois State University.
The Soviets created the most successful propaganda machine in the history of mankind. The most effective counter to this propaganda came not from professional Western ideologues but from popular jokes about communism.
Presented in 1990, Krzysztof Ostaszewski offers a critique of Poland's half-way reforms and describes the obstacles the country faces in attempting to become a fully capitalist society.
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.