Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
It would be more accurate to say that corruption WAS common to the said states. Now some of them (e.g. Baltic ones or central European ones) have made a great progress and could boast of a low level of it.
Again, given value of "low level", compared to the UK, Germany or Scandinavia they still have high corruption. You're basically right though, things there are getting better.