[unnouinceput]

And there is your answer "from 90's to 00's". Beating was done in communist era, not after the fall of Iron Curtain.

I personally received beatings from my math teacher during middle school (5th to 8th grade), which was before '89. He would make me have the fingers up and together (think of like Italians argue) and then would hit my 5 thumbs altogether at once with a wooden stick.

[rogalact]

I graduated around 2005, and yes, beatings were common. As were bribes and sexual abuse. The sexual abuse was so much in the open that some thought it was cool to see a student girl dating a professor.

It is more pronounced in universities - ask medical or economics students and you’ll uncover quite a few stories.