Why is the leadership in CEE weaker than in Western Europe or the US/Canada?

I think the big trouble is, that many of the states in CEE have a turbulent history. Many states, including the Czech Republic, have been greatly influenced by the Second World War and the rise of Communism. The Communist era, which struck almost all of Eastern and Central Europe, has unfortunately left an indelible mark in these states, which is still unclear today in many spheres.

Everything is based on the fact that these states had absolutely no room for leadership until the early 1990s! Everything was dictated by the state and high-ranking people, and it was a very direct approach that did not even take into account the principles of leadership - praise, trust in colleagues, communication ... And there were very few possibilities to find out that it could work otherwise and better (emigration abroad). This, however, was very often separated from his family, and until the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he had almost no chance of returning back. That's why many emigration people have changed their minds because their families have been interrogated as a consequence, family members have been given inferior work ... this consciousness and history is still in our populations, from a historical point of view it is a recent matter. That is why we are still lagging behind Western Europe and the US, with a 50-year lead ahead, which we are still hard to catch up with.