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Russians don't want democracy.

Repeating History Classes: Athens? Rome? No -Bucharest is Europe's most crowded capital city
Here's a city with a parking crisis, crippling traffic jams, and unaffordable rents. Office space is at a premium as well. London? Rome? Athens? No. It's Bucharest, whose population is 10 times more tightly packed than that of Paris, the city it once sought to emulate.
The overcrowding is born of the vagaries of communism -when peasants were forcibly resettled to Bucharest at the whim of a dictator -and compounded by the harsh realities of today's capitalist era, when Bucharest, as the main focus of foreign investment and economic growth, is a magnet for any Romanian looking for a better life.
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