Hungary never had a proper transition from Communism, they argue.
For a decade, Mr. Lepper, 47, has been protesting the failures of Poland's politicians to manage the transition from Communism, though some say in a self-serving way.
He has been its president since 1993, overseeing its transition from Communism to capitalism, and has announced plans to run for re-election in October.
Patriarch Maxim's tenure as the church's leader bridged the country's transition from Communism, and he withstood efforts to oust him by the new democratic government and by rebel priests who saw him as a Communist ally.
In response, Mr. Binev told a Bulgarian newspaper that he was not perturbed to be on a list of people who were "the blossom" of Bulgarian business in the transition from Communism.
In "Necessary Errors," those forces are not represented as one might expect by the sometimes painful transition from Communism to capitalism, which when it does appear is brilliantly evoked, for example through shortages of foodstuffs including potatoes and fresh fruit.
A comedy from Croatia called "Marsal" (known in English as "Marshall Tito's Spirit"), directed by Vinko Bresan, illustrates that country's confused transition from Communism to capitalism by telling of an apparition of Marshall Tito on a Croatian island.
Poland is frequently held up as the success story of Central Europe's transition from Communism.
Former President Lech Walesa, who presided over Poland's transition from Communism, called the crash "the second disaster after Katyn".
But nearly a decade ago, he realized that Ukraine's communes were doomed and would not survive the transition from Communism, and he undertook a self-reliant course to build a private farming business with brawn and wit.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Clinton administration tapped Beutner to work for the U.S. government in aiding Russia's transition from communism to a free-market economy.
