with the capitalist system and its promises of a better life. Transition from socialism to democracy and capitalist system have been perceived negatively for a good amount of the Eastern European population due to severe unemployment rate, economic stagnation and job insecurity. For almost the majority of the interviewees, the socialist system provided better education, economic development and a more reliable health system. Economies in Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, and Slovenia are in fact considered in some cases to be growing slowly and ‘not converging with the pre-2004 EU members’.
Soviet nostalgia in Eastern Europe can also be used as a tool to explain another example of the …show more content…
Such longing for the past can in fact be linked to the theory of historical imagination which shapes modern thoughts and perspectives. As recent researches have demonstrated, historical imagination can be considered ‘past and tradition-oriented’, where ‘the oldest—buildings, paintings, families, histories, and historical claims—is normally also the best, the most beautiful, and the most
Soviet nostalgia in Eastern Europe can also be used as a tool to explain another example of the …show more content…
Such longing for the past can in fact be linked to the theory of historical imagination which shapes modern thoughts and perspectives. As recent researches have demonstrated, historical imagination can be considered ‘past and tradition-oriented’, where ‘the oldest—buildings, paintings, families, histories, and historical claims—is normally also the best, the most beautiful, and the most