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Western powers, which viewed Wahhabism as an antidote to communism and the 1979 Shia “revolution” in Iran, tacitly encouraged it.
Communism lost.
Latin America’s Leftist MirageEver since Deng Xiao Ping’s remark that “it’s not the color of the cat that matters, but whether it catches mice,” it has been clear that the old Cold War divisions of left and right, communism and democracy, were obsolete.
In Georgia, Moldova, Tajikistan and Ukraine, for example, per capita GDP is now less than half of the dire levels achieved under communism.
If such massive assistance was necessary to restore the market economy to Western Europe's closest neighbours, who spent "only" 45 years under Communism, how much greater is the challenge of building modern economies from scratch in remote lands like Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan?
Is there anything we can learn from the last examples of this kind, from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, or the end of the Third Reich in Germany in 1945 and the process of "de-Nazification" that followed?
Regarding the demise of communism, the experiences of, say, Poland and Romania are profoundly different.
The Decline of the West RevisitedLONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up.
Part of the work of renewing Ukraine is a creative battle to put an end to a nightmarish century during which fascism and communism – ideologies born in the heart of Europe – battled for mastery.
They should look beyond the ravaged wastelands that communism inflicted, beyond the poverty, and beyond the social divisions through which our discarded ex-leaders sought to prolong their misrule.
For I believed that the sphere of liberty offered at the Roundtable negotiations would have to coexist for a long time with "their" sphere – i.e. the sphere of Communism.
Russia's bureaucratic apparatus has grown after communism, extending its dead hand over society.
As with “the specter of Communism” that haunted Europe in Karl Marx’s famous manifesto, so today “[a]ll the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise” the specter of national debt.
As communism disintegrated, senior apparatchiks ingeniously converted their waning power into financial stakes in the emerging market economy.
They were admitted to the EU only fifteen years after the fall of communism, and not all of them had previous experience with democracy.
Capitalism is an efficient means, but pure communism is the only moral end of any economic system.
Keynes seemed to be extolling a kind of elite communism.
In the 1950’s, communism and the homosexual “threat” became wedded in the American public imagination.
Market Mechanisms and the Order of SocietyVIENNA: Communism's collapse did not mean that the market had won a total victory.
It carries echoes of the declining years of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, when Marxist apologists insisted that there was nothing wrong with communism, except that humanity wasn’t yet mature enough for it.
And were we not right, at the time, to ignore those who told us that the dissidents were a minority who would never, ever, prevail against the granite ideology of communism?
The history of the Soviet Union has alerted us that the last stage of Communism may well be crony capitalism.
As communism was discarded, so was the concept of the state as an agent around which our collective interests and ambitions could be organized.
Indeed, he has made it a regular feature of Russian foreign policy, which is characterized by deceit, bullying, violence, and the desire to restore the empire that was dismembered after the collapse of communism.
Nixon did not demand that China’s leaders abandon communism or that Mexico become a competitive democracy, only that they act responsibly and learn to do business with the US.
In his opinion, the underlying “old” patterns of political behavior (some a legacy of the pre-communist era) were temporarily pushed to the background by the wave of pro-Western civic liberalism that followed the collapse of communism in the region.
Like Ukraine, Poland suffered from widespread corruption in the years immediately following the collapse of communism.
After all, over the past two decades, the enduring goals of dismantling communism and central planning, as well as joining the European Union, have served as important driving forces of reform.
Prisoners of the Red ArmyMOSCOW – Some of the most interesting artifacts of the Soviet Union in Russia are the holidays that continue to be celebrated, almost two decades after the fall of communism.
Indeed, just as its leaders failed to prepare for the fall of communism, the softening of the Russian economy shows that they are poorly equipped for the coming decades, which will be characterized by depleted resources, a declining population, and shrinking territory.
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