I have been reading a book, "Cafe Europa", which illustrates how people today live in East Europe and pa

When Slavenka travels to the West she has to take advantage of the opportunity and bring back things that are not accessible to people in her country. The poverty that is still visible in Croatia is incredible. One makes five times less in Croatia than in Sweden and has to pay for even more expensive products. They don't seem to be doing anything about it though. They live in their poverty they accept it as if they still live in communism. Maybe this is because they don't know their right's within a democracy. Maybe because politicians are too busy putting them to fight each other instead of educating them about their new political system and how to take advantage of it.

Slavenka Drakulic is a reporter. Her husband is from Sweden. In her book and the collection of essays she stresses the post-communist era in East Europe and how people are reacting to it, what has changed after the fall of communism and why people are still living with the old lifes

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