Czeslaw Bielecki, an MP and an underground publisher in the 1980s, says the situation is an outrage. The fact that they could get such big profits, economic profits from their defeat is something unjust in the most elemental sense of the word. But while such attitudes are widespread there is little economic information to back them up. The composition of the group in terms of background is less certain. Just because someone was a manager in a state enterprise doesn't mean he was a communist apparatchik.
Observers say the discontent is part of a larger cultural backlash.
Moving to a consumer society simply is not as easy as predicted. Choice brings responsibility. Responsibility breeds stress. The question Poles must answer is how ready are you to take your place in a complex, consumer society. It's true that Poland has a long way to go before it can consider itself a true market economy - culturally and economically.