I think it wa a disaster for Russia, didn't really happen in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova; meh for Romainia, Bulgaria, pretty good for some of the Warsaw countries west of those (DDR a special case). Anything can be exploited (communism or complete liberalism/libertarianism and everything between) but the people who did the best* seemed to have taken less an ideological view and more of a pick and choose with a slight lean against the old system. Places like Czech for example.
I'm talking about the 1990s and early 00s.
* I wound't agree with them all, even the successful ones...but as none of them are my country it's not really any of my business except to learn via observation.
Quite the opposite - the GDP rose dramatically, the standard of living too.
> I'm talking about the 1990s and early 00s.
That's the problem: these policies have a delayed effect. They were inacted in early 90s, and the country reaped all their benefits in mid 00s, while they were already scaled back and revamped. And for the last 5-10 years of stagnation have been the direct result of the latter.
I'm talking about the 1990s and early 00s.
* I wound't agree with them all, even the successful ones...but as none of them are my country it's not really any of my business except to learn via observation.