Slalom: #29 PC-110S

There was a widespread enthusiasm in the mainstream of public debate that greeted the fall of the Soviet Bloc when it happened three decades ago. Liberal pundits praised the victory of democracy over dictatorship and envisaged a new golden age of parliamentarism and the free market. Francis Fukuyama wrote his (in)famous book The End of History and the notion of „former West” was born to give conceptual form to the widespread belief that all divisions has been over-come by the revolutionary disruption of the years 1989-1990.