WHY ARE EASTERN EUROPEANS SO POOR, SLOW LIFE-STYLE, UNDER-DEVELOPED, ETC COMPARED TO WESTERN EUROPEANS?

HUH? How can you compare people who were living under brutal Communist dictatorship for generations with the people of Western Europe? Communism devastated Eastern Europe. The Communists killed over 50 million people in 2 generations, not including the organized famines in places like Ukraine that killed at least 10 million children. The Communists corrupted the police force, indoctrinated the population with anti-West, anti-modernization views, the Communists made people accustom to living off government handouts, the Communists stole the people's money, and then, when Communism collapses, the money of the people disappears, and now the people were left to fend for themselves. Only recently places like Russia are getting back billions of dollars stolen from the working cl by Communist party thieves.