The first beneficiaries of 1989

Host Mark Leonard has an intimate discussion with our heads of offices from Sofia and Warsaw, Vessela Tcherneva and Piotr Buras about their experiences, hopes and dreams during the transition times of the 1990s. How did their life and future change the minute the Berlin Wall fell? What are this generation’s thoughts 30 years later and predications for Europe in the coming 30 years?

This podcast was recorded on 21 November 2019.

Bookshelf:

• “The light that failed” by Ivan Krastev
• “Bulgaria under Communism” by Ivaylo Znepolski et al.
• “Reflections on a ravaged century” by Robert Conquest
• “Die Welt braucht den Westen” by Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff