ABSTRACT
In the attempt to understand the nature and the implications of the artificial division of Europe, too much importance is very often given to the difference of political regimes and very little to the universality of primary developments or continuity of traditions and their identities. To those who lived in the Eastern European regimes, the link between politics and culture was only too obvious. It was also quite obvious that there is more than one level of culture, and that politics cannot change or influence all of them. It did not take long to discover that behind the official politics of the day are deeper issues and problems common to countries in both the east and west. The technical transformation of reality, politics and everyday life, the cult of efficiency and the determinism of technological and economic thinking tend to transcend political systems. It is not difficult to see retrospectively that in certain areas such as politics or everyday life, for instance, the process of technical transformation was probably more radical and advanced in the East, despite the general tendency of all industrial societies to develop a more effective form of an appropriation and monopolization of power, collecting and control of informations and steady promotion of surveillance.
