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After all, communism has lost its capacity to inspire the Chinese.
Unlike communism, it offers a future that derives its legitimacy from tradition and building upon what the past has to offer – including the socialist tradition – rather than destroying it.
Russians had little but communism to blame for their plight.
So he would have been flabbergasted to see his prophecy realized, not by communism, but by the globalization of Anglo-American economic liberalism.
Having condemned the “evil empire” of communism, he helped bring the Cold War to an end.
This is not a surprise to someone like me, having been actively involved in my country’s transition from communism to a free society and market economy.
We central Europeans knew the misery of communism.
Across Eastern Europe and the developing world the Church gained enormous, fresh prestige for the role Pope John Paul II was perceived as playing in communism's demise.
In ending communism in Poland, the Pope showed just how many "divisions" he commands.
The Solidarity movement of the 1980’s and the peaceful overthrow of communism was, in large measure, the work of their generation.
As the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe demonstrates, repression alone is a poor guarantee of stability.
Romania's HysteriaBUCHAREST: Across Eastern Europe throughout this year, people have celebrated their peaceful, victorious revolutions against communism.
In Romania, however, there was nothing “velvet” about communism's end.
It never really declared communism over, merely that the Ceausescu dictatorship was finished.
All the same, Brazil's election was viewed by many in the Bush administration as presaging a rebirth of socialism ("communism" to some).
During the Cold War, social democracy was Western Europe’s egalitarian alternative to communism.
To be sure, liberal democracies have felt threatened since communism collapsed in 1989 – but mostly by foreign terrorists, who tend not to form political parties and sit in these countries’ parliaments.
The First And Last Soviet ParliamentMOSCOW: The attempt ten years ago to create the first democratically elected parliament in the USSR proved to be the most unpredictable of Gorbachev's reforms; the domestic equivalent, indeed, of his decision to allow Eastern Europe to break with communism.
International communism disappeared not with a bang but a whimper.
In the late 1990’s, the Bank achieved almost universal membership, and, confronted with the disappearance of communism, began an intense process of self-reflection, which opened the way to interesting new fields of operations, such as governance and anti-corruption.
Indeed, Roma have been among the biggest losers in the transition from communism since 1989.
But there were many roads to – and through – communism, and many of them converged with national traditions.
Indeed, communism was attractive for many reasons, including the idea of universal justice and humanized social relations; a response to the great spiritual crisis after World War I and, later, to the Nazis’ genocide; and the conviction that Western dominance of the world was nearing its end.
Finally, in a world divided by Yalta, communism was, for some, the only realistic choice for central Europe.
Attitudes towards communism were always a controversial subject for the anticommunist opposition.
Some rejected communism in all its forms.
The majority though, in one way or another, had some contact with communism, through intellectual fascination, participation in state institutions, or the cold conviction that only by accepting the reality of life under communism could one do something useful for one’s country.
These people, “tainted by communism,” constituted the majority of the participants in all revolts against the communist dictatorships.
They hated communism, but, convinced that the system could not be reformed, they avoided the democratic opposition.
But it is surprising when these people accuse participants in the Prague Spring and the democratic opposition of links with communism.
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