I have just come back from Lithuania where, among other things, I am working on a long-term training course using outdoor education methods. Many of the participants in their mid-20s are from the Baltic States: Hungary, Slovakia and so on. It is a salutary lesson to be reminded of what they have already gone through in their lives.
Take someone who is 24. He or she was 10 in 1989 when communism started to collapse. They spent all of their junior schooling under the communist regime. Their parents would have had guaranteed employment and they themselves would have expected the State to cater for and direct their futures.
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