Old (Eastern) Europe Looks New Again
Colorado Springs Business Journal › October 27, 2006
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Sometimes, the best way to understand where you are is to go someplace else.
I spent the first half of October in Eastern Europe - visiting Prague, Budapest and Cracow.See the full content of this document
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Old (Eastern) Europe Looks New Again
They're astonishing cities, with rich, complex and often terrible histories, in the midst of radical transformation.
Seventeen years ago, they were - almost overnight - released from bondage. Client states of the former Soviet Union, they were governed by corrupt, incompetent bureaucracies which imprisoned their foes, stifled innovation and pursued grotesquely delusional economic ...See the full content of this document
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