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MilkDrinker: Are you German? I enjoyed your pictures of Romania. It is indeed a beautiful country, and very much underrated. I would like to discuss it more with you.
Sure, Romania is doing better than Bulgaria but I wouldn't use "just look" as a matter of comparison. I mean it's not like "just look at Greece/Czechia an then look at Bulgaria" for sure?
^^^^And this is EXACTLY why I have no intention of EVER going to Russia! The most xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic group of people I've ever met...UGH! God forbid a non-Slav dare THINK of settling down in Russia, huh? One day, when Russia has only about 5 people (and if its demographics, drug and alcohol problems are any indication, they will get there), they will wake u and say, "Wow! Maybe we shouldn't have been close-minded and started accepting non-Slavs a long time ago! Maybe then we'd still have some semblance of a country"!
Good riddance.
Anyway to answer the OP's question, I think POland has the best bet for long-term. I think Czech growth is largely finite and confined to now. I don't think they'll decline so much as stagnate, much like I think Germany will. Poland has been receiving technology from the US more and more, and with it foreign investment. Much more so than the Czech Republic.
You must have had a terrible time in Russia. I have been there many times and never had a bad experience anywhere. And I only speak only one language, English.
There are obviously a number of different factors to consider here , which may very well change completely depending on how far into the future one wants to predict , so there really is no easy answer to this particular question IMO .
That typed I may as well throw in my own two cents , reflecting my own personal traditionalist/anti globalist beliefs of course , that virtually all East Central European countries may very well have both a bright and a dark future depending on how they arrange their affairs in the next generation or so .
At the moment ( like all over the world it seems ) the present prospects of a bright future seem rather unlikely , however that should in no way deter this particular bunch of small nations from daring to dream " big " as they say .
Really the key lies primarily in all of them gaining the confidence to believe that things can be better and acting accordingly , along with steering clear of being the de facto vassals of either big power bloc .
Resigning oneself in a fatalistic way to accept bad things as they are , has long been the curse of the entire region after all IMHO .
Estonia is doing fine. The other Baltic republics have a lot of problems.
A post over 10 years old, however, such an attitude is disturbing. Estonia's "doing fine" is mostly only praising itself and belittling its neighbors. I suspect that you yourself are from Estonia, because who else could post such posts.
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One day, when Russia has only about 5 people (and if its demographics, drug and alcohol problems are any indication, they will get there), they will wake u and say, "Wow! Maybe we shouldn't have been close-minded and started accepting non-Slavs a long time ago! Maybe then we'd still have some semblance of a country"!
