CSPAN2 The Communicators February 8, 2015
We just didnt start from scratch. We had the model of politicians a similar type of politician to havel, and intellectual writer, and morally as havel was. We had by communist standards a relatively healthy economy in 1989 and found it somewhat easier than the others to make progress. So altogether we did quite well but then there were times during which we did not do so well and that the countries in the region it as well or better. If you look at poland over the last five or six years, that is a Success Story at the moment. If you look at slovakia, from the Czech Republic at the end of 1992 ...