Have you been or are you near Eastern or Central Europe? I lived in Hungary for two years and got around to a few other places, Prague/Bratislava/Bran/and Bucharest.
The people over 40 couldn't say anything good about Russia and those under 40 largely dismissed Russia as a "harmless" old empire. The biggest difference in their views, the over 40 crowd remembered the revolutions of 1989-91(their words). The revolutionaries also shot the Russian puppet governments so that they couldn't/wouldn't come back.
I do have concerns that 10-15 years from now, land mines will still be hidden. I think it was in the summer of 20, Poland had to detonate a WWII bomb in a marina channel. Getting rid of mines and unexploded munitions will be both expensive and dangerous.