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Fundamental economic reforms are usually implemented only after a severe crisis, as was the case in Britain in the late 1970s, in Sweden and Finland in the early 1990s, and in Eastern Europe after the collapse of
communism
in 1989.
Over the last 25 years, and especially since the collapse of communism, the world witnessed astounding economic integration, perhaps the greatest in human history.
The threats looming over today's world, however, are to the threat of
communism
as metastasis is to an isolated tumor.
After
communism
collapsed, Hungarian leaders, and the Hungarian people, thought that their less restricitve system offered big advantages over other communist countries in the race to reform.
America’s Democrats knew this as well as the Republicans, but President Johnson was afraid to approach China because his party was supposedly soft on
communism.
Reformers often lack patience, and his plan for sweeping economic changes in just 500 days was as utopian as Khrushchev's promise of "Developed
Communism"
in 20 years.
He not only supported the Lysenko theories, but also believed ideologically hardened engineers and geologists who insisted that the rules of
communism
could defy the laws of nature.
During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in
Communism
behind the iron curtain.
Yet few in Britain wanted to give them credence, and many thought that
communism
was the greater threat, especially in the bleak years of the Great Depression.
By embracing economic neoliberalism so uncompromisingly, Russia’s political liberals lost any chance of inheriting the succession to
communism.
This owes much to the humiliations that Russia suffered when the end of
communism
forced its economy to its knees, and to Western short-sightedness about Russia’s fundamental strengths and resilience.
However, historical experience offers little guidance on what the sequence should be because the scale of the transformations required by the collapse of
communism
is unprecedented.
Rapid introduction of major reforms also prevents the various interest groups who benefited from
communism
from organizing effectively to slow and try to derail the transformation to a market economy.
Everyone who believes in and supports the democratic tide that swept Latin America following the fall of
communism
in Europe must affirm their commitment to monitoring the weak state of freedom of expression and democratic governance in Venezuela.
This wholesale rejection of
communism
remained a core component of Greece’s official ideology until the collapse of the country’s military dictatorship in 1974, when communist organizations again became legal.
Mistrust and anger toward a corrupt and inefficient political class, coupled with skepticism about democracy – even nostalgia for
communism
– is to be found nowadays not only in Romania, but also in some other parts of Eastern Europe.
Many people share the blame for the failures that have occurred since
communism'
s collapses.
A New World ArchitectureNEW YORK – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism.
For most East Europeans, indeed, communal and national ties -- long suppressed by
communism
and dismissed by the West -- had acquired renewed vitality.
If Tibetan Buddhism was severely damaged, Chinese
Communism
has barely survived the ravages of the twentieth century, either.
Would the withering away of North Korea’s party-state affect the debate within China about the future of its own brand of
communism?
In the 1920’s and 1930’s, Germany’s traditional Christian values and culture had collapsed under the attack of two atheist ideologies:
communism
and Nazism.
Pius XI had also condemned Communism, in the Encyclical Divini Redemptoris .
To a neutral observer in the 1940’s, the war was mainly a war of Nazism versus
Communism.
But any condemnation by Pius of
Communism
would have been exploited by Nazi propaganda as support for Hitler’s war effort.
And even those who did know something about American power, doubted that the Americans would accept the dangers and expense of defending Europe against
Communism
after Nazi Germany was defeated.
The transition from
Communism
to the market has not been easy, but Europe’s unprecedented generosity has paid off: the countries that have joined the EU have outperformed all the others, and not just because of access to Europe’s markets.
Indeed, Poland, with its rich Jewish heritage and history, was believed to be among the most fertile environments for a Jewish revival after the fall of
communism.
Lepper's supporters are not the poor and excluded, but are remnants of the lower Communist nomenclatura (the apparatchiks too stupid to steal as
Communism
collapsed) and those who made money during the grey period of 1989-1991, when state controls were practically nonexistent and when all that you needed to make money was a truck and enough petrol to drive to Berlin.
However, in Russia's case two thirds of the rise in crime came before 1992 during the collapse of communism, and crime has stagnated after 1992.
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