Financier George Soros supports eastern European dissident groups in Hungary . Soros : In revolutionary Hungary things normally impossible become possible . He set up first foundations in Hungary in 1984 ; by 1989 foundations in 22 countries . I saw the open society as a more sophisticated form of social organization than the totalitarian closed societies of the Soviet bloc . West : many post - communist states ; once again an authoritarian regime .
Financier George Soros supports eastern European dissident groups in Hungary . Soros : In revolutionary Hungary things normally impossible become possible . He set up first foundations in Hungary in 1984 ; by 1989 foundations in 22 countries . West : many post - communist states ; once again an authoritarian regime .