Countries that were once imprisoned by Soviet tyranny — think Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, not to mention Ukraine — tend to be more conservative and nationalist than countries where peoples have less first-hand experience of unbridled socialism.

For the same reason, people from that once benighted region of the world who emigrated to the United States or to other countries of the West are less likely than their host populations to flirt with socialist prescriptions or to wonder whether they might be better........

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