There's an online interview with Czech writer Jachym Topol, who's surprised that Eastern Europe is still so different from the West, twenty years after the Soviet collapse: "Take the subway ticket inspection, for example. Here in Berlin, all the people just show their tickets. In Prague, this would be inconceivable; there, the people intentionally rummage around in their pockets in as laborious and protracted a manner as possible because the inspector, as the representative of a public institution, is viewed as the enemy - and so it's valid to hold him up for as long as possible to give the fare dodgers time to get out of the carriage... A second phenomenon I hadn't counted on in 1989 is the fact that many Communist crimes have still not been atoned for after twenty years - the perpetrators have not been punished."