You'd think that the number of pouty Eastern Europeans upset that the West didn't make them all instantly rich in 1991 would diminish with time. But it's not true. Those who were small and barely remember socialism and those who were born after 1991 and don't remember it at all are just as angry as 70-year-old babushkas.
Obviously, I'm not talking about all Eastern Europeans. Many are not like that. I'm not like that. But enough are. Enough to start wars that will go on and on because you don't need to have a memory of socialism to feel nostalgic for it.
Capitalism actually did make Lea Ypi rich. The property expropriated from her family before Albania became Stalinist was returned to her. She became a professor at a fancy place. Her life is that of extraordinary luxury. Capitalism gave her everything. Compared to the terror and misery of her socialist childhood in a repressed family of political undesirables, she's living in paradise.
Yet Ypi is as angry as any unemployed pro-Putin drunk somewhere in Kaluga. She became an ultra-woke professor of Marxism and teaches about "capitalist oppressions." She's a fanatic of open borders, an idea she says she discovered at a Soros class in Albania in the early 1990s. My personal hatred of Soros dates back to that time because he was doing this in every formerly socialist country. He was poisoning the minds of these stupid teenagers or even pre-teens. They had no place to go, and the Soros organizations would bribe them with fun activities and food. Then they'd be brainwashed. And now they are bombing Ukrainians at worst or advancing the woke revolution at best.
We are in for a lot of upheaval brought to us by the pouty Eastern Europeans like Ypi. This is the second book in as many weeks that I randomly come across where an ultra privileged woman from Eastern Europe throws a tantrum about "bad capitalism." Both books are very popular. Ypi's collected every award imaginable because the endless repetition of the word "Marxism" soothes the sore brains of award committees.
Still, I recommend the book because you can find out a lot about the horror show that socialist Albania was. Ypi learned nothing from her experience there but we can. Most importantly, we can prepare ourselves for the future designed for us by the hordes of angry, rich Ypis.
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