God, I've been reading your exchange with ThirdConsul and it's painful. I'm sorry you have to endure this shit.

If you want an additional reference to the USSR actually subsidizing the Polish economy, Szymanski's "Is the Red Flag Flying" goes in detail about this, and proves with economical data that 1955 onwards the USSR subjected itself to the short end of the stick of unequal exchange and provided raw materials to the COMECON countries at international market prices and below in exchange for industrially manufactured goods. Some nationalist Poles are to a certain degree aware of this and instead of framing the exchanges as "dismantling of Polish industry" as this clueless user is doing, speak of "the USSR giving us useless iron and taking finished industrial products from us", completely devoid of any understanding of high value-added goods.

Also, the user is outright lying. The USSR absolutely warned Poland not to get into loans with the IMF, and Poland ignored it anyway, proving again Poland's political independence within the Eastern Block.