Answer:
Many people living in East Europe do not participate in their government because their countries are non-democratic.
Explanation:
East Europe, in general, is a region that was formerly under communist rule. Despite the fall of communism at the start of the 1990s, its legacy still dominates in multiple countries of this region. One of the biggest problems that have persisted is the high levels of corruption and the societies not being democratic.
It is hard to generalize all of Eastern Europe because there are differences from one country to another. Anyhow, we can take countries like Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, and Romania, that would fall in the category of non-democratic countries. Note that officially, all of these countries promote themselves as democratic, with only Belarus being the exception, but in reality, it is not the case. All of these countries have either authoritarian leaders and governments or governments that are highly corrupted and spread the corruption to all levels of society. The general population tends to be mostly or fully marginalized when it comes to political matters.
