Revolutionary Shadows
Mistrust and anger toward a corrupt and inefficient political class, coupled with increased skepticism about democracy – even nostalgia for communism – is to be found nowadays across much of Central and Eastern Europe. More disconcertingly, a similar oversimplification and coarsening of thought and feeling is occurring in the US.
VIENNA – What happens after the euphoria of revolution fades? Today’s Eastern Europe, some two decades after the revolutions of 1989, may offer a salutary warning for today’s defiant and jubilant Arab youth that they must remain vigilant.