During this 100th anniversary year of communism we were reminded of the evil ideology’s death toll. Many former communist countries celebrate their escape from communist enslavement, and almost three decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the countries that have had the most freedom have fared the best.
James Gwartney and Hugo Montesinos from Florida State University analyzed the economic performance of former Soviet Bloc nations, referred to as formerly centrally planned or FCP countries, from 1995 to 2015.
