Communist nostalgia


Communist nostalgia, also called Communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia, is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior Communist state.
Examples of such nostalgia can be observed in East Germany, in Poland, in the former Soviet Union, in former Yugoslavia as well as in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The free market addressed the fond memories of the bygone era through reintroducing some of the erstwhile prominent brands and imagery to the public.

Reasons

argues that after the anti-communist Revolutions of 1989 the specific perspectives of the development remained unclear for some time, they were expressed in generic terms such as "return to Europe", "to Western values" and the like. This resulted in utopian expectations regarding capitalism and democracy. When confronted with the hardships of the transition, the "post-revolutionary utopianism" produced "post-revolutionary disenchantment".
According to Kristen R. Ghodsee, a researcher on post-communist Eastern Europe: