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Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.
Imre Nagy, the leader of the Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Dubcek became parts of their national legends, which belies the claim that communism was exclusively a foreign imposition.
When I recall these events after 40 years, I see not only revolt, but also the great illusion that it might be possible to outfox the Kremlin and painlessly move society from communism to democracy.
On both sides of the Atlantic, people know that NATO is about peace with freedom, victory over Communism, borders defended without fighting a single battle.
Yet no single event did more to bring down communism in Europe – and thus to re-shape the post-war international order.
Contrary to expectations, the collapse of communism did not bolster international cooperation.
In the 1980’s, the near-simultaneous crisis of communism in the East and social democracy in the West gave her the opportunity to do great deeds.
In fact, history could be said to have come full circle in the space of a quarter-century, from the fall of communism in Europe in 1989 to renewed confrontation between Russia and the West.
The move from communism to capitalism in Russia after 1991 was supposed to bring unprecedented prosperity.
At 4% growth per annum, it will take Russia's economy another decade to get back to where it was when communism collapsed.
Instead, many economies followed communism itself into collapse.
For all its brutality, even the Soviet imposed transition to communism in the immediate postwar years did not incite a protracted fall in output.
Individual property rights and contracts scarcely existed under communism.
After communism, even in some of the more advanced post-communist countries they remained insecure and ill-defined.
When communism collapsed, the center disappeared altogether.
In the last years of communism investment was almost totally guided by self-serving enterprise bureaucracies.
In the wake of the death of the utopian - and often bloody - certainties of the 19th and 20th centuries (Communism's collapse was but the latest spectacular example), and with fading belief in the liberal welfare state, traditional views about work, retirement, education, the Church, solidarity, and other social institutions are changing rapidly.
But on the night of November 9th, when the wall and the barbed wire which had failed to irrevocably divide Germans over many decades of bitter separation began to crumble, communism's collapse became irreversible.
I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and collapse of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism.
And when, after the collapse of communism, the end of history seemed near, ideological politics was thought to have vanished forever.
The “triumph of the West” that followed the collapse of Communism in Europe was clearly not the “end of history.”
As was the case virtually everywhere else, communism in China was nationalism incarnate.
People entertained the illusion that the transition from communism would be fast and relatively painless.
Although the MSZP benefitted from a wide public perception that "things were better under communism" the party nonetheless governed responsibly, for the most part.
So the illusion that the "ghoulash" communism of Janos Kadar could be restored - and to its credit, Horn’s government did not encourage such nostalgia - went unfulfilled.
One lesson of the 1989 revolution in Eastern Europe is the value of having truly democratic-minded figures lead the escape from communism.
Only Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov came near to Walesa and Havel in terms of moral authority, but Sakharov was dead by the time communism collapsed, and Solzhenitsyn’s ideas were too conservative, too tied to Russian nationalism, for him to become a symbol of democracy in a multi-national Soviet Union.
The only country in the region to have managed communism's end without a single drop of blood being shed, Bulgaria is irritated at the risk of being dragged into a foreign war.
Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.
Keep the Internet Tax-FreeWASHINGTON, DC – When you spark one of the largest protests in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism, you know that you have stirred up the electorate.
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