balkanlands.com: "the author's main thesis is that the west missed a unique historical opportunity to unite europe and that the peoples of central, eastern and southern europe are beyond salvation, deformed and pathologized by communism irreconstructibly".

recent articles by sam vaknin (reviewer at cer and author of "after the rain") about history, economies, cultures and societies of the balkans and central and eastern europe.

and even more vaknin, internet-related: "the bloodbath and the hope, the trends and the blind alleys, the creators and the channels, the content and the distribution – it's all here in trendsiters".