Czechs fear for democracy 30 years after Iron Curtain fall

Czechs, Slovaks and people elsewhere in the former Eastern Bloc fear for the state of democracy, and mistrust their respective governments and media, according to a survey the Open Society Foundations has conducted on the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Iron Curtain fall. In the Czech Republic, people firmly stick to the once achieved freedoms and remain optimistic, the survey showed. In six out of the seven surveyed countries, more than a half of the respondents said in their opinion democracy was endangered. The highest share of those mistrustful is in Slovakia (61 percent) and Hungary (58 percent).