Sunday was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the most symbolic event marking the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the quarter of a century since the wall was knocked down, the political and economic systems in eastern Europe have been turned on their heads: Gone are the communist institutions, replaced with governments that are even more capitalistic than those on the western side of the Iron Curtain. Researchers at Capital Economics have published a fantastic series of charts on the transformation of post-Soviet eastern Europe. We’ve republished a selection of graphs from the report, which …read more
Source: Business Insider
