“It was 1990 the
year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the
words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere
lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never
worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it
seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic
system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.” ― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
