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Whether Russians live under monarchy, communism, Yeltsin's cowboy market economy or Putin's supposed dictatorship of law, the result is always the same - the system despises its citizens, eliciting an equal and opposite reaction of derision and distrust.
Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did.
The Forgotten Twentieth-CenturyBERLIN – It has been 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which for many historians marked the real end of the “short twentieth century” – a century that, beginning in 1914, was characterized by protracted ideological conflicts among communism, fascism, and liberal democracy, until the latter seemed to have emerged fully victorious.
Who now remotely understands – let alone takes the trouble to try to understand – the great political dramas of intellectuals like Arthur Koestler and Victor Serge, people who risked their lives for and then against communism?
Outside of China, Cuba, and North Korea communism is popular only in West European cafés and a few American college campuses.
The situation here is not unlike that which the EU faced in Eastern Europe, a region which also needed an "anchor" after the fall of communism.
After some hesitation, Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union’s leader, allowed his East German counterpart, Walter Ulbricht, to erect a barrier between East and West Berlin in order to ensure the survival of communism in the entire Soviet bloc.
But Gorbachev, though still a believer in communism, refused to maintain the Soviet empire at the barrel of a gun.
Had the Wall not been built in 1961, would communism have collapsed sooner?
As communism collapsed, the conformist momentum -- born of fevered cultural insecurity -- gathered pace.
To be sure, in the struggle against Communism, the Polish Church was, indeed, conservative--and thank God for that!
With Communism gone, however, the problem confronted by John Paul II and his Church today is this: in what language can evangelical values be articulated in a world where evil is not incarnated in a political system but is diffused in individual souls?
I confess that I view the heritage of Communism with more skepticism.
Communism's defeat left a huge black hole in communities' souls, which is now being filled with nationalism, bigotry, and Western consumerism.
But another reason behind North Korea's dynastic succession was that Kim Il Sung created a national ideology, Juche , that mixed communism with a heavy dose of Confucian values.
If and when communism collapses in China, the piling-up of fortunes within leading families will probably have played a crucial role by persuading those leaders that life can offer pursuits even more rewarding than the struggle for socialism.
Why, two decades after communism ended and Ukraine gained its independence, does the country remain mired in economic torpor and an authoritarian politics that has aroused such ire in Europe?
Whatever the means, governments are striving to interfere with the work of political, social, and environmental activists to an extent not seen since before communism collapsed in Europe a quarter-century ago.
Such “revisionists” were a distinct minority, which is a good thing, as there is no reason to believe that the Soviets and Communism were a benign force.
The former argued that nothing less than overthrowing communism – “regime-change” in today’s parlance – would do.
The latter approach held that efforts to roll back Communism in the short run were too risky, given the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and that the United States and the West should content themselves with limiting the spread of Soviet power and influence.
It is important here to keep in mind that containment, the dominant doctrine of the Cold War era, sought to push back against Soviet and Communist expansion – not just to limit the reach of Soviet power, but to frustrate it – in order to create a context in which the inherent flaws of communism and authoritarian rule would come to the fore.
We now live in a hard post-communist reality, when the vices engraved by decades of communism have surfaced, and we are often unable to deal with them.
After 1,000 years, Russia will have come full circle, returning to Kievan Rus after wandering on the roads of the Mongol hordes, empire, communism, and farcical Putinism.
The basic problem lies in the fact that the heritage of communism is a much greater burden than the majority of people, including experts, ever imagined, and was much more about the inheritance in people's heads than the inherited economic structure.
Famous around the world for both his writings and his struggle against communism, he endured ceaseless harassment, including imprisonment for five years at the beginning of the 1980s.
Even during the liberal Prague Spring, Havel remained a dissenter, never accepting the idea of "socialism with a human face," arguing instead that real democracy was the only alternative to communism.
Last but not least, extremist political movements such as fascism and communism have been largely discredited.
These doubts stand in sharp contrast to the consensus that prevailed for many years after the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989-1991.
The differences between the Warsaw Bloc countries and the Soviet republics were important, but one similarity was crucial: in all of these countries, the Kremlin had imposed communism at gunpoint.
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