Whereas the West had to deal with a brutal change in the terms of trade for a strategic commodity, post-communist economies had to deal with the wide-ranging institutional reforms and resource reallocation following the collapse of the Soviet trade bloc.
Dok se Zapad morao nositi s brutalnom promjenom uvjeta trgovine strateškom robom, postkomunistička gospodarstva morala su se nositi sa sveobuhvatnim institucionalnim reformama i preraspodjelom resursa nakon kolapsa sovjetskog trgovinskog bloka.