Angela Merkel is seen by some as a good thing in the Czech Republic, mostly for the fact that she spent a few years as a student there back in the dark ages of communism.
In discussing this point a brilliant, and I hope achievable suggestion has been touted by Rudolf Zahradník her former professor: “The fact that she comes from a former Eastern bloc country and lived through a totalitarian regime, as we did, can only have a positive effect,” he said. “I think all Western politicians should experience at least several months of real socialism.”

I was thinking of sending them all off to live in Burma, or maybe Zimbabwe.