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In Asia, it was meant to contain communism, while allowing allies, from Japan to Indonesia, to build up economic strength.
Spreading democracy was not the main concern; stopping communism – in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas – was.
It is a form of Cold War nostalgia – a dream of returning to a time when much of the globe was recovering from a ruinous world war and living in fear of communism.
Since the end of communism in 1991, these countries (and others) have experienced a dramatic increase in the use of illicit drugs.
He did not fight against communism because of some hidden personal agenda, but simply because it was, in his view, an indecent, immoral system.
What a distance Poland has travelled since communism's collapse in 1989!
Russia may now go on to complete its transition from communism to capitalism.
After communism's collapse, he worked with people like Anotoly Chubais in the liberal St. Petersburg government of the early 1990s.
Part of that process involved resurfacing elements of national history that had been obfuscated or repressed under communism.
Hungary played a special role in the collapse of Communism, accelerating the process by opening its borders for East German refugees.
Nevertheless, the 20th anniversary of the collapse of communism is overshadowed by the global financial and economic crisis.
It is arguably the world’s second-largest, deliberately-planned economic structure, after Communism.
After all, the force that brought down communism in Europe – a far more dangerous ideology than radical Islam – was not simply military containment, but also the power of ideas and ideals.
Any increase in the market's perceived legitimacy brought about by the failure of communism was temporary at best.
(Soviet communism, for all its imported Western inputs, was rooted in the traditional idea of collective property.)
Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's death and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.
The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.
Now that rich countries no longer need to worry about losing the developing world to Communism, they have an opportunity to redefine the global economic order according to the same principles on which they built successful national economies: fair competition and social justice.
The Soviet Union’s ruling ideology was equally clear: a Stalinist version of Communism.
Mao, too, focused Chinese nationalism almost entirely on the brave new world of Communism.
Communism, as a ruling ideology, disappeared in Russia and has become so diluted in capitalist China that little more than its symbolic trappings – and a Leninist party with a monopoly on power – remain.
Indeed, Romania’s reformers confronted conditions that the Polish, Hungarian, and Russian reform governments had faced when communism first collapsed.
The current campaign shows that xenophobia and nostalgia for communism retain an alarmingly potent appeal.
Moreover, communism in those states was different than that practiced in the three Baltic countries, which were part of the Soviet Union.
At the start of the 1990's, following communism's fall, the common experiences and the shared legacy of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland were behind the idea of creating the so-called "Visegrad Group," with the aim of coordinating the three countries' efforts to join the EU and NATO.
Historical precedents indicate that forcing disparate nations and states to unite under a single idea – whether communism in the Soviet Union, socialism in Yugoslavia, or a shared currency in the eurozone – generates centrifugal forces that can trigger the union’s collapse.
Orthodox Communism, a perfect secular simulacrum of religion, has been the primary victim of development since China launched its market reforms in 1979.
Thus, the rise of the social-welfare state was a response (often of market-oriented liberal democracies) to the threat of popular revolutions, socialism, and communism as the frequency and severity of economic and financial crises increased.
Many countries outside the European Community suffered banking crises, including neighboring Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Turkey, as well as many East European nations during their transitions from communism.
And as early as 1939, Peter Drucker claimed in The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism, that “fascism is the stage reached after communism has proven an illusion.”
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