Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of Central and Eastern Europe remains an enigma to Western audiences. Frequently the only knowledge Westerners have had of these Cold War nations has come from the spy genre of film and fiction. These depictions were almost universally negative; the countries horrid, the people villainous. In 2009, Christopher Kauffmann quit his nearly 30-year career as a journalist to fulfill a lifelong dream of moving to Europe. Over the course of the next five years, largely in a futile effort to find gainful...
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, most of Central and Eastern Europe remains an enigma to West...
