Political reforms, privatization, anti-corruption measures, a search for new leaders untainted by compromise with the former regime, and implementation of a pro-European foreign policy met no resistance. But the totalitarian mindset has since resurfaced in leaders who, with their claim to represent the will of the majority, appropriate more and more power.
开始看起来一切顺利。政治改革、私有化、反腐败措施、寻找没有与前政权妥协而有污点的新领导人以及实施亲欧洲的外交政策并没有遇到抵抗。但是，极权主义的心态重新浮现在领导人中。他们宣称代表大多数人的意愿，攫取越来越多的权力。