Yikes, can you please edit out personal swipes from your comments to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? We're here for curious conversation. It's also best to avoid denunciatory rhetoric, not because things don't deserve denouncing, but because it degrades internet discussion quality badly.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I'm not entirely sure what country you're talking about here. Is it Romania? United States? Maybe United Kingdom?
You must live in one heck of a bubble, I'm a Romanian and definitely wouldn't describe it as "shady".
While you clearly have some issues with the way certain things are going inside the country, the generalizations you're making are definitely exaggerated.
People just don't know the Eastern Bloc all that well. It is shady as the OP says. It's a mentality and a way of life that the more polite-class citizens of those countries there are trying to unwind and return to some bastion of civility, but it's hard when the modern-day mafia runs the governments and does it's best to stay in power.
At least here, the corruption isn't as obvious. Over there, they wag their tail right in your face and ask you what are you going to do about it.
People emigrate from these countries to say, North America or Western Europe or UK in search of a better life.