Who would have thought that Europe’s margins – places that always, as Czeslaw Milosz wrote, “knew far more about the West than the West ever knew or cared about the East” – could change the world by remaking the continent, bring down an empire of tyranny and rekindle the dream of a free, liberal and whole Europe. Those who were lucky to see their creation come to life were Wałesa, Michnik, Havel and, believe it or not, Orban.
Driven apart by history, culture and mutual distrust, these four countries came together as never before and forced the West to take their …read more
Source: Visegrad Insight