Czech Politics: Fiala government

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As is often the case in the countries where it could be, quite a striking difference between repopulated ethnically-cleansed regions and the rest of the country.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The difference isn't the economic history of the regions in question, but the parties concerned: right from the very beginning PiS has appealed to the idea of wiping out as many traces of the Communist period as possible and creating instead a 'real' and 'organic' Poland, rooted in Catholicism and some form of re-imagined traditional social order. Babiš is a former Communist and represents something quite different. 'Populism' in this sense is a euphemistic label for a particular style of politics rather than a euphemistic label for a particular political ideology.