Victory Day in Central and Eastern Europe – a Triumph Not Worth Celebrating?

... Sergei Lavrov visited Bratislava to take part in the official 70th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of the capital of Slovakia. Despite the significance of the event, the President of Slovakia did not participate in the wreath-laying ceremony with ... ..., after the complete withdrawal of Soviet troops, it fell to virtually 16% . This fact is quite obvious: Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland developed more slowly than Austria. At the same time, the state of affairs with respect to the development ...