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States of Change: Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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  • November 2019

Despite deep concerns about the future of democracy, people in Central and Eastern Europe retain a strong attachment to civil society and faith in the freedoms achieved with the collapse of Communism, according to States of Change: Attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a report from the Open Society Foundations.

Based on polling by YouGov conducted in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, States of Change provides a snapshot of current opinion on democracy, freedom of speech, the market economy, and the media in the former Eastern Bloc and Germany. 

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New Open Society Report Finds Hope and Fear in Post-Soviet Europe

Thirty years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, Central and Eastern Europeans still believe in democracy but doubt their governments’ capacities and intentions, finds new research from Open Society drawn from YouGov polling

November 3, 2019

Remembering 1989 In Depth

After the Wall Came Down

An older man standing in a crowd holding two fingers in the air

It’s been 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, inspiring a democratic awakening throughout Central and Eastern Europe. What lessons does the Cold War’s end offer for the next generation of reformers?

October 31, 2019 | Tim Judah

The Legacy of 1989

George Soros on Europe after the Berlin Wall

Soldiers standing behind a fallen section of the Berlin Wall

Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, Open Society Foundations Founder and Chair George Soros looks back at his support for Central and Eastern European democracy, which began when few imagined the fall of the Iron Curtain.

October 31, 2019

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