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CHARTS: How Capitalism Has Transformed Eastern Europe Since The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Mike Bird   

CHARTS: How Capitalism Has Transformed Eastern Europe Since The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
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Sunday was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the most symbolic event marking the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the quarter of a century since the wall was knocked down, the political and economic systems in eastern Europe have been turned on their heads: Gone are the communist institutions, replaced with governments that are even more capitalistic than those on the western side of the Iron Curtain.

Researchers at Capital Economics have published a fantastic series of charts on the transformation of post-Soviet eastern Europe.

We've republished a selection of graphs from the report, which takes a look at 11 countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

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