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Hungary's Open SecretBUDAPEST: Only a decade ago, with its "goulash socialism" Hungary seemed the most prosperous communist economy.
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.
Or that in Germany – and particularly in the country’s formerly communist east – “pogrom” sentiment against foreigners would return?
In the 1990’s, when communist regimes collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, and dictators fell in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, the Arab world stood out for its lack of popular, anti-authoritarian movements and developments.
But, as post-1989 developments in former communist countries have shown, elections are a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for democratic consolidation.
Yet, after the communist revolution in China and the Soviet Union’s failure to ratify the Bretton Woods Agreement, the IMF and the World Bank went in a different direction.
But the bubble was really manufactured by China's communist rulers over a decade earlier on the advice of local property magnates, who wanted to limit the amount of land British colonials were permitted to sell.
The Chinese communist party knew it had a legitimacy problem, and the driving idea behind Deng's ingenuous formula was to allow Hong Kong to show China a short cut to prosperity.
(They are strongly opposed by Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are familiar with communist repression.)
When a similar issued emerged in the 1970’s – the so-called “recycling of oil surpluses” – banks in Western financial centers extended loans to Latin America, communist Poland, and communist Romania.
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.
This is not to say that the organizations linked with Greece’s communist left believe that all Germans harbor an inner Nazi.
Every society - communist, socialist, or capitalist - uses the market.
He was handpicked by Stalin to be a puppet Communist leader in the North.
Let the Negotiations BeginHaving successfully integrated ten new members in May – including eight former communist countries with significantly lower levels of economic development – some argue that the EU should stop there.
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.
In communist Eastern Europe, that was apostasy.
Communist leadership in Hungary was not something for the mere people to decide, he spluttered.
And no one can deny the religious authority of Pope John Paul II as a spur to Poland’s rebellion against Communist dictatorship in the 1980’s.
Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.
Of course, even looking at these countries entails selection bias, for it excludes countries without price data for much of the twentieth century, notably China and Russia, where communist revolutions terminated the stock markets, resulting in -100% returns for investors.
The CGT, close to the Communist party, fights the movement as vigorously as it can.
After regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, only remnants of the industrial behemoths of the communist era remained.
Many of them, including Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, were ruled by Communist regimes at the time.
Solidarity suffered that frustration in Poland in 1980-81, which prolonged communist rule for a decade.
The communist leadership finds it hard to mention, let alone emphasize, the country’s problems.
McKinsey consultants have even forecast that the upper middle-class will number 520 million by 2025 – the sort of projection that the communist mandarins welcome as a tribute to their strange hybrid of a market economy and rigid state control.
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
The Kennedy administration stumbled badly when it tried to destabilize Fidel Castro’s communist regime in Cuba – an effort that culminated in the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Almost three decades after the end of the Soviet Union’s own war in Afghanistan – a war that enfeebled the Soviet economy and undermined the communist state – Russia has moved to establish itself as a central actor in Afghan affairs.
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