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Eastern Europe (where I'm from) has no significant resources. The corruption is still rampant. So there must be another cause.

• pydry 4y ago
  Eastern Europe has been routinely contested territory by great powers for the past 1000 years. It's got very unfortunate geography.
  • lostlogin 4y ago
    So have most other regions. Where hasn’t had this happen? The longer humans have been somewhere, the more they seem to fight.
    • pydry 4y ago
      Switzerland and the USA are two countries blessed with particularly fortuitous geography.
• from 4y ago
  Well the government owned every legal business and then was pressured to dispose of all those businesses quickly when the USSR collapsed. It is not surprising that that kind of environment invites massive amounts of corruption, especially because there was almost no one before privatization who had enough money to buy those businesses for their true prices. At a lower level it probably has more due to do with low wages and general disillusionment with "the system."