Poland is one of the most effective states in post
Communist Europe. The Poles have managed to make a fast ‘transit to the West’ and enter the major political bodies of Europe as a full
fledged player overcoming a great number of complexes and historical trau
mas, which threatened to explode the region with new conflicts as far back as the 1990s. But the most important thing is that the Polish nation kept its unanimity in major issues of for
eign policy, and managed to establish an efficient system of domestic political democracy.

In Russia, people feel that the government should be strong and unified and that one should not criticize the government. This is a very deeply rooted notion in Russia that is confirmed by public opinion polls. For example, when asked, ‘Do you think the mul
tiparty system does more harm than good?’ the majority of Russians respond with, ‘More harm.’

The economic liberalism in the form that was shaped after the 1970s, which became evenly spread everywhere in the 1990s, essentially can be explained as follows: the elite and the state divest themselves of the ‘society service’ function. This is happening not only in Central Asia, but also in Western Europe and the United States.