Came to say basically what you said. The communist bloc/empire collapsed and was places like these were washed away in the tide of globalization. The same happe

Came to say basically what you said. The communist bloc/empire collapsed and was places like these were washed away in the tide of globalization. The same happened in the rest of Europe, but it was especially brutal in the Warsaw bloc. The more capitalist countries were better prepared to handle globalization.