ABSTRACT
It is a truism to say that post-communist transformation is liberal in spirit and action (in the European sense) as history goes, in the countries concerned, from the command (totalitarian) system to economic and political democracy - to what Karl Popper called the open society. The Zeitgeist of the eighties only accentuated the liberal spirit, but did not determine it! A simple intellectual exercise can be used in order to verify this assertion. Let us imagine that the domino effect of the collapse of communism in Europe had occurred in the 60s, which means in the years of paradigmatic supremacy of Keynesism in economic policy. Would that have meant an alteration of the liberal essence of transformation? The obvious answer is NO. How is the path of transformation and how would post-communist societies look after a longer period of time are, however, questions which are still begging answers.
