In the eastern part of EU, there are plenty of states including my own which were centrally planned during communism, and people have strong negative emotions t

In the eastern part of EU, there are plenty of states including my own which were centrally planned during communism, and people have strong negative emotions towards that, for some good reasons. It just didn't work very well, and once performant economies were brought on the level of 3rd world counterparts simply by bad long term management over 40 years. One example - Czechoslovakia had at the end of the WWII more performant economy overall than Austria. After 40 years, I recall first trip there - it felt so surreal. The country was spot clean, maintained, highly developed, shops were full of quality wares we couldn't dream of (say bananas and oranges, meat looked so much more tasty and so on). We could barely afford going to the public toilet in the center. I am sure it could be theoretically done better, but I can't imagine it done well back home.