Numerous other countries that border Russia, and numerous other counties in post-Communist Eastern Europe, have long-term demographic outlooks that are at least as harrowing.

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More recent works address post-communist Eastern Europe and remain strongly feminist: glossy black-and-white images of models are juxtaposed with harrowing stories of domestic abuse.

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The main takeaway is that policy decisions matter and that much of the suffering we see throughout post-Communist Eastern Europe, where unemployment is still maddeningly high and where economic growth is still piddling, is entirely unnecessary.

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