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 je Zapad morao da se izbori sa brutalnim promenama u smislu trgovine jednom strateškom sirovinom, postkomunističke ekonomije bile su suočene sa sveobuhvatnim institucionalnim reformama i preraspodelom resursa posle raspada istočnog trgovinskog bloka.