What I noticed from many people growing up in former communist states is that they seem to have similar issues as people that lived in jail for a long time. In

What I noticed from many people growing up in former communist states is that they seem to have similar issues as people that lived in jail for a long time. In jail you have a very regular live and you don‘t have any responsibility for anything. You also cannot change anything. You try to make the best out of it. But after you leave jail live outside seems awfully complicated. So many decisions, so much responsibility, so many expectation what you should or what you should not do is often overwhelming for these people. And if they don’t get help (and many people from former communist countries never got any kind of help) they struggle with their new freedom. So many of them glorify their time back in jail, where everything was so simple. And this is of course true to some extent. But it still was a jail.