I meant it more generally. It is remarkable how Poland developed after 1990. Everything is new, state of the art, you can pay with card everywhere. New technology everywhere. Sure, not so much in rural areas, but that is the same in every developed country on earth.
The transition of the economy after 1990 was a very tough thing to fo. You had massive overcapacity in steel and coal industry for example. So if you would have done 50/50 joint venture those overcapacities never would have gone away because the influence of the unions would have been too huge.
The cases of India and China are different: Those potential markets are so big that as a western company you have to invest there no matter which demands comes from the governments in those specific countries. The market in Poland with 40 million citizens is not big enough. So the government was not able to force the same demands from western capital than China did, so they asked all the -inskis in Chicago to invest in the homeland of their ancestors π