A tragicomic story on what’s essentially a result of bad institutions in Moldova.
I enjoy Igor Cobileanski’s works a great deal, but I think he misses the point when saying that he’s only illustrating a cultural reality specific to Moldovan people. The truth is that there wouldn’t be any “cultural reality” that he’s so fond of had there not been the corrupt institutional system guiding peoples’ incentives and behavior toward unproductive and destructive activities. What Cobileanski should really be getting at is not a romantic view on Moldova’s cultural reality as he states, but rather a disturbing institutional reality which, I believe, is sadly the case for all of the “failed” ex-soviet democracies (Moldova, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan).
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