HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Dumping, Ostalgie, League Of Communists Of Yugoslavia
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Spying on their citizens, regimes that were deeply oppressive and repressive. 1989- 1991: from the wall to the end of the soviet union. Demise of the communist regime in the eastern block, in the meantime west and. Dissatisfaction with the present due to: disenchantment of the 1990s, central- east europe as semi- colonial periphery. Rewriting of the past: the new risks of a post cold war world. Communist countries (people didn"t vote, didn"t have many civic rights. They had free healthcare and education) and it was equally across the board. In the 1990"s, the collapse oft hat system had an economic backlash inflation during the transition years. It hit central- europeans hard because they saw their incomes melt. The gdp/ capita decreased, life expectancy rates decreased as a consequence of the public sector and the privatization of the material industries. All the public services that they were accustomed to, disappeared.