[inglor_cz]

I am from the Czech Republic. Our inequality is better than American, for sure, but we seem to be on the same track. Especially the gypsy ghettos are fairly bad. Not as bad as the worst places in the U.S., but shockingly bad for the middle of the EU. In neighboring Slovakia, some of the mud hut villages look like a mixture of the Middle Ages with rural Nepal. So I am not really sure if the better numbers aren't result of some creative statistics.

I still believe that Karikó's equipment was fairly bad, because I was alive in the 1980s and I remember the shortages of everything. Late stage Communism was all about stuff shortage. Either something was really plentiful (but usually of questionable quality), or very hard to acquire. This included school equipment. The first home computers spread some 10 years later than in the West and we regarded them almost as godly objects.