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Actually, you're wrong. Unless you don't count Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and some others as Post-Soviet countries. You could,
by bgarbiak 15y ago
Actually, you're wrong. Unless you don't count Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and some others as Post-Soviet countries. You could, eventually, be right about Ukraine and Belarus though.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoCzech Republic, Slovakia and Poland were never Soviet countries.
- I-RIGHT-I 15y agoThe Soviet tanks were just sightseeing? They used to be called Satellites but under Communist Russian control all the same. Post WWII History 101.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoIt's like calling Canada just another state of USA. It's an interesting metaphor, but factually incorrect and it matters in some important areas (for example, netflix selection:)
- jarek 15y agoI'm not seeing a lot of U.S. tanks in Canada...
- guard-of-terra 15y agoCanada, no; These countries, some: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_...
- GiraffeNecktie 15y agoThey were part of what was sometimes called the "Soviet bloc" in that they were aligned with (i.e. controlled by) the Soviet Union but they were never part of the Soviet Union itself.
- bgarbiak 15y agoNo, of course no. Not literally. They were Soviet satellite states. But it's a semantic dispute and we're missing the point, which is: the Post-Soviet countries (or post-communist countries - if we want to broaden the term and stay intact with the facts) are not necessarily bad places to make businesses.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoCan you figure out what it depends on? I.e. if we have a post-communist country, how do we guess whether we want to make business there?
- khafra 15y agoDo you mean, if you're looking at it from 1990 and guessing? Or from today? Because I'd think all the standard factors for locating a new business apply, today.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoI mean finding the reasons why different countries are good or bad for making business.
- k7d 15y agoIndeed, there's a corruption problem in Latvia, but nothing like this. And it looks like it's improving rapidly as oligarchs are loosing power.