7125f60346f86f380e71e61e_dr2954a.jpg Dean Rohrer

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.

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