> It'd be nice to think it might be replicated by lots of other Eastern
Europeans.

There's a story I quite like regarding Eastern Europe. Nowa Huta, a Polish city
devised under Stalin as a workers' city, had an area called Lenina Square at the
centre of its methodically socialist realist layout. After Solidarity rose to
power and swung sharply right under Western pressure, it was renamed Ronald
Reagana Square. But the majority of Nowa Huta residents hated that name,
bitterly complained of it and eventually changed it to the fairly literal
"Central Square."

It's important to debunk imperialist fantasies that the Berlin Wall fell because
of a mass surge in free-market thinking. Which is actually a worryingly common
fantasy on both the right and the left, similar to the idea that the students
who faced down tanks were class enemies. Anyway, good interview, and good to see
people rebuilding.