Everything was state owned. Communists have nationalised everything.
In the mid/late 1980s during the "thaw" reforms (corresponding with these in the Soviet Union) they allowed some very small business, like independent shopkeepers or people importing and selling personal computers (they were also selling pirated software, and others were selling pirated VHS tapes with American movies in the various dedicated marketplace events, usually on Sunday mornings). Such people were being deresively referred to as prywaciarze (literally privateers, just not in "a pirate" meaning).
prywaciarz m pers
(colloquial, historical) private entrepreneur during the communist era, operating outside of the official system of planned economy
Everything was state owned. Communists have nationalised everything.
In the mid/late 1980s during the "thaw" reforms (corresponding with these in the Soviet Union) they allowed some very small business, like independent shopkeepers or people importing and selling personal computers (they were also selling pirated software, and others were selling pirated VHS tapes with American movies in the various dedicated marketplace events, usually on Sunday mornings). Such people were being deresively referred to as prywaciarze (literally privateers, just not in "a pirate" meaning).