Three decades after charting a radical new political course, Central and Eastern Europeans are now voicing skepticism about the ruling elites, media and liberal democracy. Will these states revert back to more authoritarian rule?
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the former Warsaw Pact countries hitched themselves to the star of liberal democracy in the hope of reaping all the freedoms and liberties that communism could not afford them. And make no mistake, many people did profit handsomely from the new political arrangements. However, for many citizens of Central and Eastern Europe, who have had the unique experience of living under two completely different systems of government, the inherent problems of liberal democracy are perhaps easier to identify.
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