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In the west east--the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, and
probably the Baltic Republics (though I don't know enough) I thought that
the results of shock therapy were actually a little bit better than I had
expected. Don't they look on track to become western European-style social
democracies in a decade?
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The C.R, maybe. Slovenia seems to hanging on to the worker controilled coioperative socislaim of the former Yugoslavai, with OK results. Poland's a disaster story, polarization, poverty, the works. Unlike Russia, though, it has an economy. Humgary's atwo decades behind the C.R, so it'a anybody's guess. The Baltics are in terrible shape because their economiesa re depoendent on Russia's. Finland too, by the the way.
--jks