Do you think that all Eastern European countries started from the same level?

Do you think that corruption and the grip of old communist cronies are the only reasons for slower economic and democratic changes in some Eastern European countries? The The truth is that in some counties, such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland economic policy changes started as early as the 1960s. Read Hungarian Government Strategy for Development and Promotion of SMEs to learn more about the move from a command to a market economy in the former socialist republics in Europe.