The former communist world made those choices 20 years ago. But very different choices – for better and for worse – were made in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, in the Baltic states, across the former Soviet Union, in Central Asia, and in East Germany.
前共产主义国家在20年前先后做出了上述选择。不管效果好坏，波兰、匈牙利、捷克斯洛伐克、波罗的海诸国、前苏联内部，中亚和东德都选择了自身独特的道路。而这些选择的结果最终汇集成为一个充满经验教训的重要数据库。如今的阿拉伯改革者们也可以借此取得我们的成功——同时也避免当年所犯下的错误。