ABSTRACT

Central and Eastern European history and culture have been marked by the Communist experiment of 1945–1991, and Soviet dominance left traces everywhere, whether in the economic fabric or in people’s mentalities. It is worth noting that Communist ideology theoretically aimed at “liberating” the working class, seizing power via the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat – a precondition for the construction of an egalitarian Socialist society, uncluttered by the concept of private property. The Creatives are not the only weaker class in Central and Eastern Europe. Millennials are also much less numerous than in North Western Europe for a number of reasons. First, against the backdrop of the implosion of the socialist economies in the 1980s and the uncertainty of the economic transition in the 1990s, many young couples got reluctant to have children, while the increased rate of divorce did limit the size of many families.