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The explosion of crime originates both from decaying communism and emerging capitalism.
Remember that communism was often linked with cleptocracy: everybody stole his or her share.
As communism approached its collapse, people profited ever more from distorted state regulations, such as multiple exchange rates and multiple prices, as the old controls fell apart.
During the last years of communism, the prison population shrunk sharply because of amnesties.
Men and women who found strength in their belief in Communism resisted the Nazis with equal tenacity.
In Poland, once the battle against Communism was won, the Solidarity movement was soon sundered by conflicts between secular democrats and believers who looked to the Church for guidance.
In the 1990s, as ordinary Hungarians struggled with the transition from communism to a market economy, the foundation funded free milk for elementary school children in Budapest and supplied the first sonogram machines for Hungarian hospitals.
In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism.
It is hard to see Russia offering the world a new type of universalism, as it once did with communism.
Politics did not keep pace, and the result was the rise of pathological ideologies – fascism and communism – that divided nations and the world.
In the transition from communism, many simply failed to ponder the full consequences of their proposals on the poor, the elderly, children, the Roma minority, or women.
Her period in office coincided with the crumbling of Soviet communism in Europe, which culminated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
She had been an outspoken critic of Soviet communism, like her transatlantic friend and partner, Ronald Reagan.
"It's not my fight," says one 28-year-old Cuban, referring to the political battle of communism versus capitalism that keeps him trapped on the island.
But the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet Union’s “anti-NATO” alliance of socialist countries, was dissolved in 1991; communism imploded the same year, with Russia caught ever since in a struggle to build a market economy and define a new global position for itself.
George Kennan, one of the greatest American diplomats of the post-war years, once wrote that the Western world was committing its biggest mistake in 50 years time by expanding NATO after Soviet communism collapsed.
Indeed, in the Great Depression of the 1930’s, it was common for Western intellectuals to turn to communism and central planning as a hoped-for panacea.
Some never returned from that intellectual journey, despite the collapse of communism.
Under communism, significant efforts were made to assimilate Roma; they were given jobs, albeit at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and were assured housing.
Nazi propaganda blamed Jews for everything: Germany’s defeat in World War I, universal moral values that prevented the Aryan race from exerting its superiority, and both communism and capitalism.
When the Wall fell in 1989, the images broadcast around the world of Germans clamoring atop and dancing there, before tearing it down piece by piece, became an equally iconic symbol of the rapid decline of Soviet-style Communism.
Soviet communism was doomed long before then, when, as Amalrik predicted, the communist myth finally died in the hearts and minds of ordinary people and officials alike.
This stage of Soviet communism took 40 years to run its course.
Will authoritarian mercantilism now succeed where communism failed?
After all, Putin had been a protegé of Anatoly Sobchak, the liberal mayor of St. Petersburg as communism collapsed.
Finally, there are the EPP’s center-right Christian Democratic forces, which emerged in the immediate post-World War II period with a religion-based emphasis on social solidarity that provided an alternative to the inhumane collectivism of fascism and communism.
In Steven Lee Myers’ excellent new biography, The New Tsar, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief describes how, when Putin was posted in East Germany in the waning years of communism, he used his opponent’s weaknesses to advance the Soviet cause.
Popper pointed out that an open society can be endangered by abstract, universal ideologies like communism and fascism.
But, contrary to his expectations, communism collapsed altogether, and the khrushchevki remained, having patiently withstood Russia’s winters, political and meteorological.
Slouching Towards EuropeWhen communism in Eastern Europe collapsed, the region's new democratic leaders agreed that joining the European Union--fast--must be their priority.
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