the communist regimes installed after the World War ii in the coun-tries of central-eastern europe proclaimed the development of trans-port as an economic priority alongside the industrial branches and agri-culture, starting both from the objective need for the development of the economy, and from the Marxist premise according to which the devel-opment of networks of transport determines the specialization of other branches (Botez et al., 1977: 13–14), thus multiplying the social division of labor and production on the internal level, respectively the interna-tional division of labor on the external level (Marx, 2023: 1364) as key concepts of Marxist ideology. therefore, the allocation of investments for the transport systems in the socialist countries of the east was based on a double foundation – economic and ideological – which determined a centralized and integrated design of the transport systems, based on a common management of infrastructures and transport operators (ruiter, 2005: 287; ottosson, 1997: 187). Such an approach was possible against the backdrop of the ideologically determined monopoly of state owner-ship over both infrastructures and transport agents, a context in which there was no question of the balance between the market and govern-ment intervention or the accommodation of public and private interest (hasselgren, 2013: 33; Medema, 2009: 137), but only the exercise of total government control over transport systems, considered strategic from an economic and security point of view...