unism to my country is the deformation of peoples way of thinking, of their spirit. It will take at least one generation to repair this. But in spite of it, I am convinced that Communism has lost in my country for all times and will disappear in the same trash-bin of the history as Nazism did. Freedom has a very sweet taste and once you taste it, you never want to go back. Today, young people in my country perceive Communism as something assimilated to a dinosaur or any other prehistoric subject, and I do not believe that they would ever succumb to its evil charm, simply because they are no more insulated from the outside world, as the generation of my parents and mine were, they travel around the world, surf on the Web, send messages to friends with their funny cellular phones and break driving mirrors of parked cars and the windows of MacDonalds during their Global Street Parties, exactly the same way as kids in the rest of the free world do it. They have to face insecurity, unemployment, drugs and all those things that make part of life today. This is the price that has to be paid for the democracy, and that is right because every good thing must be earned. Many people of my generation feel having been sacrificed in the name of the transition to a market oriented society. They do not realize that in fact the destiny offered them a very rare and precious gift: After years of submission and fear, theyve got an opportunity to discover what is it to be free and responsible for one-self. The trouble is that the life under a Communist regime did not prepare them for it, and they feel lost. I visited many post-Communist countries and I can confirm that this is a common problem in all of them. We need the West to be patient with us and to help us not only financially, but also morally. And my personal belief is, that the best way to improve this sad situation is to offer opportunities to study and to gain a working experience abroad to our y...
