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It's pretty impressive how quickly Poland turned into a mostly "high trust" society (I don't know about Romania). Like, a few decades? Sure there's still some c
by skrebbel 6y ago
It's pretty impressive how quickly Poland turned into a mostly "high trust" society (I don't know about Romania). Like, a few decades? Sure there's still some corruption and nepotism but totally not like this, and it changed in a single generation.
- snickerer 6y agoGeorgia in the Caucasus is quite interesting. The police there were Soviet-style horribly corrupt. And, some years ago, this changed from one day to the next. They fired all the old officers and started with better training and better payment for the new ones. And with punishment for bribery and criminal behavior at duty. The society decided to do this and it worked very well. I personally experienced encounters with police in Georgia and they were nice and friendly. They helped me instead of robbing me. Very impressive.
- yread 6y agowe did a road trip for a few days in Romania a few years ago and experienced no corruption. It was a rental though perhaps it would be different if we had foreign plates?
- jacquesm 6y agoBoth are fine now, you still get stopped more often than in western countries but no more bribery and reasonably professional police officers. Romania took a lot longer to get to that state than Poland though. In general Poland's progress over the last 30 years has been extremely impressive.