A moving video on TikTok. The pensioner tells about life in Poland and what she thinks about Jaros³aw Kaczyñski

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Although the government has announced that inflation will soon calm down, it is not visible on store shelves. Prices are high and it is not known if they will ever return to what they were before the increases. Although at the beginning of February, a zero VAT tax was imposed on some products, in many cases it did not change anything, because the cost of producing a given product is still very high. We all felt it. A journalist of the “Goniec.pl” website asked a senior woman she met on the street about her life in Poland. Although, as the government claims, retirees have never had better, according to the woman, it is not so colorful.

The pensioner has nothing to live on

A pensioner, a native of Warsaw, told about how she lives in Poland. The woman lives in Warsaw’s Wola district. Her apartment is 23 square meters, and the monthly rent is … PLN 1100.

I am paying, sir, 1100 zlotys, and the garbage collection is counted, all the “crap”, pardon me, and what should I do if I have a pension of 1100 zlotys? What to live with I don’t even have bread.

he tells the reporter.

The pensioner mentions what her monthly costs are: “I have to give rent, because they’ll throw me out on the street, right? Where’s the light, where’s the phone, where’s the gas? They were so poor in Poland “- he reveals. When asked about, she replies that in the face of high fees and living costs, this money is not a help or help for her.

Seniorka replies what she thinks about Jarosław Kaczyński

The reporter asked the woman what she thought about. Her answer is really touching.

They only think about themselves. All … The old people are already thrown into the garbage. When I am 80 years old, sir, I am 1942. I was born here in Warsaw, I am so poor now. It is sad for me to be so cold and poor and starving.

– says.

At the end of the conversation, she added that life under the communist regime was much better and easier. – “I wasn’t worried about the bread, the flat, anything, sir. I had everything, and now it’s really unpleasant …” – she recalls.

After the recording on TikTok, there were a lot of comments from people who would like to somehow support the senior. Among them was also one that describes the situation of seniors in Germany.

Horrible. I live in DE (ed. Germany), here my grandparents have a beautiful life. When I go to the store in the morning, they are already sitting, drinking coffee with a dessert or eating breakfast.

– one of the internet users writes.

Although we see only one senior in the recording, this probably applies to many retirees in Poland.