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The Solidarity union that was born in 1980 broke the Communist Party‘s monopoly on power.
Hundreds of books prohibited by Communist censors (for example, Gunther Grass’s The Tin Drum ) came to light.
In a few months, talks between Communist bosses and their democratic opponents (often in the form of a roundtable) paved the way to free elections and new democratic governments in Budapest, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia.
European Defense and European SolidarityPRAGUE - Perhaps it is the experience of a man who endured forty years of Communist rule, and the Nazi Occupation before that.
In the wake of the communist takeover in 1949, Mao Zedong and other political leaders hoped to reverse China’s backwardness quickly, adopting a big push to build advanced capital-intensive industries.
I asked him in July 1989, as Poland’s communist regime was already unraveling, when freedom would reach Prague.
All of this is taking place in a nation where Communist ideology remains strong and that remains in many respects a military dictatorship which threatens to conquer Taiwan by force, as well as uses North Korea, Pakistan, and Libya as stalking horses for weapons development.
Introduction of foreign companies, technologies, and unfettered mobility for corporations and people would all be viewed as a threat to the Communist system if it were publicly acknowledged.
Much of his appeal (at least so far), may be lost, which goes some way toward explaining General Lebed's decision that he would prefer to run as the communist's candidate for president.
Kennan argued that long-term peace between the capitalist West and communist Russia was impossible, owing to the mixture of traditional Russian insecurity, Stalin’s need for an external enemy, and communist messianism.
In contrast to Russia, Ukrainian politicians like President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko have shown that they are keen to break with the communist past.
Only communist rulers could force millions of people to buy their complete works, filled with wooden ideas written in turgid prose.
The problem with many democratic politicians today is that they have become almost as dull as the old communist autocrats.
Asia’s water map fundamentally changed after the 1949 Communist victory in China.
Socialist and communist parties, no less than the Catholic Church, have firm views on right and wrong, and on what the collective good should be.
Egon Krenz, the Communist boss of the German Democratic Republic, called it a “botch.”
Might Krenz and the Communist reformers who had seized power just weeks earlier have been able to channel popular unrest, or even defuse it?
And, while North Korea’s communist system and that of China have become profoundly dissimilar, some Chinese worry that a collapse of North Korea’s order could shift the battle lines of that debate.
The final pillar of Xi’s strategy for solidifying the Communist Party’s authority is to replace Deng Xiaoping’s cautious foreign policy with a muscular one.
Nor is it a communist dictatorship, with the likes of Joseph Stalin using the threat of the Gulag to discourage political expression.
Firewalls to FreedomNEW YORK – Even the most cold-hearted realists would agree that the failure of Communist censorship played a role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain: Voice of America, the fax machine, rock ‘n’ roll, and the lure of Western capitalism helped to win over the people of the Soviet Bloc.
Advocates of this position see EU voters as terrified by the consequences of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU, when eight formerly communist states joined, and angry that they were not consulted about it.
Poles had worked in some agricultural jobs – in sugar beet and wine harvesting – even during the communist era.
These include not only the rapidly growing formerly communist countries to the east, Poland and the Czech Republic, but also Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland, upon which Germans traditionally looked down.
The 1949 communist takeover in China, the Cold War, America's adoption of Japan as its pampered protégé, and the failure to prosecute Emperor Hirohito for war crimes, allowed Japan to avoid a moral reckoning.
In particular, China’s government has resented any Japanese involvement in Taiwan since 1972, when Japan severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan’s government and recognized the communist regime.
The head of an unlikely alliance of reformist Islamists, secular civil-society groups, and Iraq’s communist party, Sadr won the recent parliamentary election by promising a nationalist drive to oust Iran from Iraq.
But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.
The choice is long overdue, as South Korea is a remarkable success story: in one generation, the South Koreans, formerly pummeled by civil war, under constant threat from their Northern communist brethren, long mired in poverty, and ruled by military dictators for 40 years, have built the world’s 13th largest economy and Asia’s most vibrant democracy.
By obscuring the role that local populations played in both Nazi and communist crimes, such laws help to advance nationalist narratives, which can prove very handy for politicians looking to win popular support.
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