30 Years After Fall of Communism, Mixed Support for Democracy

In the early days following the revolutions that overthrew the communist regimes across Central and Eastern Europe, the public joy that coursed through the former Iron Curtain countries could best be summed up by one word: bananas.The fruit had long been largely restricted from citizens from the old Soviet bloc, thanks to the communist barriers walling off Western Europe.Suddenly available, the banana was seen by Central and Eastern Europeans as an exotic expression of their liberation from auth