When at the turn of the 1980 the face of the political world was largely remodelled with the
vanishment of classical East and West blocs the economical wasteland created by the failed
socialist planned economic system constituted a fascinating research pasture for economists of
all disciplines - especially macroeconomists and specialists for economic politics. At
universities new faculties for transformation studies were created. Authors like Rodrick
elucidated the reasons for the acute period of the COMECON alliance in form of teh Soviet trade
shock de Melo van den Mortel a.o. discussed reasons for discrepancy of initial condions
Aghion & Blanchard about the speed of transition just like Wyplosz Fischer & Sahayestablished
a balance sheet after a decade of transition. However the preponderant part authorship
dedicated to the fate and future of Central and Eastern European countries left apart a force
of influence which disciplines of business adminitration have discovered for disciplines like
management and staff motivation: culture. The author of the present study did extended research
for working papers a.o. which may provide hints for characteristics of development visible in
two exemplaric states out of which one used to be part fo the soviet Union (Ukraine) the
other a satellite brother country (POland) which lie below the surface of economic behaviour
and performance. The result of this quest was y and large that there indeed do exist works
which deal with the selected econo-political aspects however most authors refer to the five
dimensions of national culture presented by Hofstede which in the author's opinion
oversimplify the complex and difficultly obervable domain fo culture sometimes even is
entangled in contradictions like with the high masculinity femininity index for Italy.
