Young Gain Job Advantage in Post-Communist Societies
275 views · Published 5 November 2009 · 3:48 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2009 · News & Politics
The symbol of Communism -- the hammer and sickle -- represents the main tools of physical labor used by industrial and agricultural workers. But the collapse of the Iron Curtain 20 years ago coincided with a decline in heavy industry and the rise of the Internet and knowledge-based companies. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky recently visited Poland and Hungary and examines the habits and expectations of a generation raised under Communism and those who came of age during the global Information Revolution.
