Wow, that's solid thanks, had no idea he had youtube. Yeah, he's American.

I can imagine even more than 9% not proud, but it doesnt mean they don't like / hate their own country. They have indifferent attitude, no love, no hate I would suppose. Similar to everywhere in the world. Although actually some first generation immigrants could actually hate the country and society. This is what we see in european countries with immigrants who do terrorist attacks.

So I'm guessing his parents are russian immigrants. Might be wrong of course, that's my guess though.

"He claims that 77% of Czechs for example believe the country is worse off under communism."

No, on github he says "worse off now than under communism", so he says 77% Czechs believe they country is worse off now. So it looks like he wants to prove that majority of Europeans want to go back to old system, which he uses as example of how great communism was for people. But yeah, the article is from 2019 and some stats he takes are from as far as 2011, so quite old.

That article and these percentages is complete bs. I can tell you firsthand since I'm living in Poland. Poland is deveoping in about similar rate as other countries from that post communist block. And people are much better and happier. The guy who wrote that article writes for diplomaticpost.co.uk which apparently is some commies publishers nest in UK, so not surprising. Lies.

I would say these percentages were correct in early 1990s, where those countries basically collapsed, there was huge unemployment, there were no businesses running, corruption, small amount people who had connections in communist party stole all the capital (95% was state owned - land, production facilities, residential buildings, actually every building, farmlands, healthcare, education etc etc) that was built with hands of entire society through the years and was a common property. These folks now are richest folks Polish people. That transition was far from clean and fair.

Things are a bit better now, cause even though some folks had an unfair advantage in the beginning by stealing from society, they were many times unqualified to manage a capital and some of them just wasted it. Though still majority of capital is in the hands of those early "wild west" stealers I would say and also western big corporations who also got hands on all that capital which was sold to them by the early governments which were run by former communists. But there are new companies that were created and built solely by clever ideas and hard work and they bring hope. And first and foremost actually even though the capital was distributed unfairly, those people still need to bring value out of it and produce high quality products and services because otherwise somebody else will do it, so the society still wins. That's the beauty of competition.

I could go on, it's a long story. In general the story of polish transition from the old system I see as good people vs evil people. Those who want good for society and people around them vs those who think only about themselves. And it keeps going like that today as well cause the same people are still in the today's government and government is tighlty coupled with big capital in Poland because of 1990s transition where everything started.