Law, Business and Society 11th Edition by Tony McAdams

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People in former communist nations in Eastern Europe, including Romania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia, report mixed feelings as they look back on the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the Western European/American allies. When dictatorships were replaced by democracy, the initial reaction was euphoria, but in subsequent years some nostalgia for the certainties of communism has emerged. A Czech professor summarized the current feelings of disappointment: "People her admired the freedom and prosperity of the Western world. Now what they see is materialism, corruption, inflation, lawlessness-and they can't find spiritual or material prosperity." High unemployment, poverty, and harsh cuts in public spending have dashed the high hopes for post-communist prosperity. Many in Eastern Europe yearn for the comfort of state-provided health care and education and state-subsidized goods and services, but the evidence suggests they tend to forget about the poor quality of those goods and services, state censorship, the absence of freedom, and fear of the state.
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