However, those who themselves lived through the communist era in the second half of the twentieth century – and here in the European Union there are ten countries which have experience of this – know how difficult it is to free oneself, both psychologically and institutionally, from the oppressive and overpowering system of real socialism.
Cependant, ceux-là mêmes qui ont vécu sous l’ère communiste de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle - et ici, au sein de l’Union européenne, dix pays en ont fait l’expérience - savent combien il est difficile de se libérer, sur le plan tant psychologique qu’institutionnel, du système oppressif et dominateur du real socialisme.