"Socialist policies will be revived"

James Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Sep 4 08:18:00 PDT 1998


An interesting question will what effect that Russian events will have on the politics of the various eastern European countries. During the 1990s there have come and gone several different leftist governments (in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania etc.) that were comprised of ex-Communists. The policies of these governments were for the most part, however, mildly social democratic keeping within the policy parameters imposed by the IMF. It will be interesting to see if there will be a new turn to the left in eastern Europe (or perhaps a turn to the nationalist right out of fear of Russia). If eastern European politics does make a sharp left turn what will the consequences be for the West?

Jim Farmelant

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