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So, as Putinism atrophies, the great hope among his immediate circle is that they will be able to do what the communist elite did in the early 1990’s – hijack whatever new system emerges and put it to work in the service of their own interests.
But the magnitude of the economic costs should not be exaggerated: after all, the aggregate GNP of the 10 applicant countries from the former communist bloc is smaller than the GNP of Holland!
Many Romanian Army officers are unhappy with the notion of soldiers being tried for crimes committed while defending the dying communist regime.
The "original sin" of the Romanian Revolution always looms: most postcommunist institutions were created and later run by people deeply involved in the crimes of the communist regime.
China is Laos’s biggest aid donor and largest trading partner; yet Laos’s ruling communist party last month elected a new leadership reportedly devoid of any pro-China politicians.
So long as the USSR did not stage a military attack, containment’s reliance on economic sticks and carrots, competition within the world communist movement, intelligence and diplomacy, and promoting the vitality of the capitalist democracies would guarantee security.
From dirigiste France to communist China, countries with widely divergent economic models began to adopt a more laissez-faire policymaking approach, predicated on the idea that the less state intervention, the better.
As one wit has observed, the PC (personal computer) and the CP (Communist Party) do not go together.
President Boris Yeltsin’s main ideological project, completed in 2000, aimed to undo symbolically the years of communist rule and return Russia to its past.
Indeed, until his abrupt dismissal this spring, Viktor Chernomyrdin, one of that gas company's communist era managers, was Russia's prime minister.
In its relationships with smaller countries like Sri Lanka, China is replicating the practices used against it in the European-colonial period, which began with the 1839-1860 Opium Wars and ended with the 1949 communist takeover – a period that China bitterly refers to as its “century of humiliation.”
Primakov tried to launch communist policies, such as price and currency controls, but failed and found little money to dole out.
Ironically, the financial crash provided the shock therapy under communist aegis that the Russian reformers failed to deliver.
The main enemy of the open society is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
No longer able to define itself in terms of a Communist menace, the Western alliance seems to have lost its sense of purpose.
As for the people living in formerly Communist countries, they might have aspired to an open society when they suffered from repression, but now that the Communist system has collapsed, they are preoccupied with problems of survival.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, I devoted practically all of my energies to the transformation of the formerly Communist world.
If the open society is to serve as an ideal worth striving for, it can no longer be defined in terms of the Communist menace.
It wasn't only Communist Party members who were dazed by Khrushchev's revelations; progressives of all stripes - from trade unionists to Trotskyites - were forced, if they were honest and brave enough, to reassess long-cherished beliefs.
Indeed, the Communist vote collapsed to a mere 12.7%, down from 24% in 1999.
Although the Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, accuses the Kremlin of rigging the vote, his party is--at long last--beginning to look like a spent force.
So the training will take place, not in Stockholm or some other open city, but in communist Hanoi.
Some East European countries specifically prohibit the denial of communist “genocides.”
Communist parties and Marxist intellectuals saw their legitimacy vanish at the same time as social democratic faith waned.
When I first went to China in 1982, it was a very poor country governed by a thoroughly communist regime.
Polish and Russian Jews, at least at the beginning of the communist era, were often loyal subjects of the communist state, because it promised (falsely, as it turned out) to protect them against the violence of anti-Semitic nationalists.
During Soviet times, it was easy to understand how the communist ideal could seduce those of generous spirit, even if its promise of a just and free society ultimately turned out to be a lie.
Indeed, though it has long been an industrial powerhouse, Japan is frequently called the world's most successful communist country.
As President, for the next two years he ran an experiment in socialist economics, designed to woo communist supporters.
Indeed, communism’s breakdown began ten years earlier in Poland, during Pope John Paul II’s first pilgrimage to his homeland, a visit that shook communist rule to its foundation.
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