[1] Poland was portrayed as a modern country with bright economic future, even though much of Gierek's reforms were based on unsustainable international loans.
[1] Propaganda of success spread to many media; for example all contemporary Polish television series had to respect its ideas.
[7] To support the propaganda of success, Polish official statistics, promoted by the media, were often highly selective.
[9] The era of propaganda of success in Poland came to an end with the 1980s with the wave of strikes and demonstrations against the government which resulted in the rise of the Solidarity trade union.
[10] Propaganda of success, contrasting grim, everyday reality with an idealized fictional vision of it has been described as achieving contrary results to the intended and has been named as one of the factors responsible for growing social unrest in Poland.