Wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t make more money too. I have read that computer software engineering companies, like IBM and others seek graduates from Poland for this specialty area. The Polish engineers are supposedly the best in the world.
Just as the pre-Castro era cars were better than anything in the post Castro era and the Cubans had to innovate and make do with repaired and jerry-rigged parts, Poland was able to pick up older PC's for a song and learned to program with minimal memory.