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WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe's former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a survey has found.
People in nine Eastern European countries polled, who were born shortly before or after the Berlin Wall disappeared, were markedly more approving of the move to a multiparty political system and a market economy than older generations.
The survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project mirrored one carried out in 1991. The new poll revealed an overall slip in approval of democracy and capitalism among most countries surveyed, with those polled in some countries like Bulgaria and Ukraine expressing sharp drops.
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