Why would the bureaucracies be communist era? I think they are far older breed. E.g. hungary was part of the Austro-Hungrian empire (with the intentionallly con

Why would the bureaucracies be communist era? I think they are far older breed. E.g. hungary was part of the Austro-Hungrian empire (with the intentionallly convoluted bureauracy to play the different nationalities of the empire against one another). A lot of them were under the russian empire with it's bureaucratic legions, while the balkans were under ottoman rule (again, not the most dynamic or uncorrupt of administrations, to put it kindly). The places that have a dynamic spirit in them, like Estonia, are special. They were a swedish domain and then under german rule with hanseatic league, thus creating tradition of good governance, before russia took over. I don't know of this explains anything, though.