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240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 5, 2021
Romania is in the EU, it is a democracy, there is capitalism鈥攜et only on the surface. When you scratch it, the real Romania shows through and it doesn鈥檛 appear to be much different than it was twenty-five years ago, when party membership and VIP connections were the means of survival and the main currency of corruption. This goes for most other Eastern European societies, really. And it was my generation that couldn鈥檛 get rid of it. There is corruption in the West too, but there is a difference between the individual cases of corruption in the West and corruption as a system, the way society functions in the East.