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Topic: Eastern European countries.
+Anonymous A — 12.5 years ago #33,295
Was wondering about Eastern European countries, why is it that so few of them are successful economically? They've had almost 25 years since the end of communism and most are still reeling economically and backwards in many ways. And it's almost like some, Ukraine for one, were almost better off under communism. It's weird.
Why is this? Has the west not helped them out enough? Helped them too much? Or are they actually doing well? I think Czech and Poland might be doing the best out of them but they are I guess the most westerly of them.
+Sophie !MLHqI35Srs — 12.5 years ago, 11 minutes later[T] [B] #382,443
Poland and the Czech Republic were among the least centralized of the entire Soviet bloc; Poland had started its slow transition to capitalism from about the time of Solidarity in the early 80s onward. My grandfather used to help them out in the day.
It's also useful to understand that a lot of their gross domestic product was comprised of heavy-industrial activity prior to the fall of the wall, materially this meant little for most of the population, who lived on next to nothing. (Vodka, turnips, and potatoes were one of my distant aunt's staple diet.) My grandfather would go back and forth from Poland frequently during this era; were he alive, he'd be able to tell you first hand.
+Morbid !vbsvhaneDY — 12.5 years ago, 1 minute later, 12 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #382,445
@previous (Sophie !MLHqI35Srs)
Blah, blah, blah. Blah.
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