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Look at Poland where President Kwasniewski and former President Walesa were almost banned from October's presidential election because of alleged ties to the communist era's secret police.
Europe’s history is one of the concepts of salvation, freedom, progress and humanity, but also of conquest, plunder, colonization, including the export of such dubious articles as one I experienced -- communist ideology.
The Communist government in China can no longer derive any legitimacy from Marxist, let alone Maoist, ideology.
In Ho Chi Minh City, a name not even Communist officials use, Saigon remains its old brash, energetic, and audacious self.
Four years ago, I gave a series of lectures at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and squeezed in a visit with my uncle, a Vietcong who stayed behind after the Communist victory.
Moreover, an increase in the demand for broadband connection has triggered the launch of an $800 million “Jin Dun (Golden Shield) Project,” an automatic digital system of public policing that will help prolong Communist rule by denying China’s people the right to information.
I can easily envision alternatives, such as Communist victories in post-World War II elections in Italy and France that would have impoverished nations now in the rich North.
Some examples that we might relate to better can be found in the communist, centrally planned economies of much of the twentieth century, which also had no speculative markets.
Not only does Italy now have the first West European government led by a former communist party, but this development has been embraced by businessmen, investors, and financial speculators at home and abroad.
Early work, including mine, was based on investor perceptions in the early 1980s, and was thus focused on market economies (understandably, the consulting firm that surveyed perceptions at the time did not analyze communist countries).
Communist ideology is long gone, so the legitimacy of the ruling party depends on economic growth and ethnic Han nationalism.
This time, he argued that the US needed to take a tougher stance in regions with communist connections and sympathies.
On the contrary, he argued that “where the concepts and traditions of popular government are too weak to absorb successfully the intensity of the communist attack,” the US must concede that “harsh governmental measures” to repress communist sentiment were the “only answer.”
These swings keep many people (not only the elderly) voting communist.
The Chinese Communist Party has long since ceased to be a traditional Communist party.
So what will replace the Chinese Communist Party will probably be a new force that emerges from inside the party; a group that regrets the errors of the Communist system, a group committed to establishing a healthy democracy.
These calls will eventually form the mainstream, and the liberal forces within the Party will undoubtedly respond by seizing a historic opportunity not only to reverse the verdict but to move toward discarding the Communist system.
Post communist states have among the most generous social budgets in the world, when measured as a percent of GDP.
In most countries communist parties bequeathed their assets to their successors with little hindrance.
One exception is the Czech Republic, where the process of lustration (disqualification for state posts as a consequence of previous senior membership in the communist party or secret police) dramatically weakened the communist party organization.
All communist regimes made lavish commitments -- universal pensions, disability pensions, health care, housing -- that bankrupted the economic system.
Unlike the Communist regime, the new Russian state doesn't treat its citizens like a flock of sheep.
The former has a considerably lower standard of living, owing to its communist government and centrally planned economy, which contrast sharply with South Korea’s democratic government and mixed capitalist economy.
When the Berlin Wall fell, barely two generations after the war ended, the standard of living in communist East Germany was just one-fifth the level attained in capitalist West Germany.
These words prompt a sad smile;Leonid Brezhnev used precisely the same phrase in August 1968 to justify the Red Army’s intervention in Czechoslovakia to help beleaguered Communist hardliners there crush the Prague Spring reform movement.
When change came, instead of following a slow democratic process, Russia replaced its discredited communist model overnight with a Harvard-designed blueprint that was also unfit for the country.
The EU Must Stop Funding IlliberalismBRUSSELS – Since 2004, when the European Union was enlarged to include many of the former communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, its regional funding mechanism has been heavily geared toward ameliorating economic inequalities between old and “new” member states.
NEW YORK – Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing, only die-hard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy.
So now we hear pathetic echoes of all the reform communist efforts of the long years of Soviet decline: Putinism without Putin, Putinism with a human face, etc.
Even among Putin’s kleptocracy of ex-KGB men, as among the communist apparatchiks in the dying days of Gorbachev’s rule, there is a growing realization that the jig is nearly up, and that it is time to look after oneself.
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