3.2 No Clear Vision of the Future
At the same time, people just emerging from communism do not have a clear understanding of the kind of society towards which they are in transition. This is similar to what happened to the Israelites in the desert. They knew Egypt all too well, but they had no clear idea what life in the Promised Land would be like. This kind of situation leads to a kind of deep-seated hopelessness, one of the most common ‘diseases’ in post-communist societies.
People who have been part of a centralised economy all their lives find it very hard to understand the mechanisms of the free-market economy and of democracy. Again, it will be easier for younger people to learn and adapt to these mechanisms.
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