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I was born in a provincial town in Bulgaria in the late 1960’s, when, like the rest of Eastern Europe, the country was under Communist rule.
The communist dogma was shattered, but so was the pretense that we were all equals in a homogenous society.
Other than in the former communist states of East Germany, the AfD’s strongest performance was in the CSU’s stronghold of Bavaria, which will hold local elections in October.
No, the real difference – whether we like to admit it or not – is that China’s communist government has succeeded in globalizing a much larger share of its population than India’s democratic government has managed to do.
The old, outmoded heavy industries that were the pride of our Communist regime were shut down – practically overnight – because they could not survive the opening of the economy.
The latest is Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and political writer, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Peace while serving a prison sentence for “subversion” of the Communist regime.
As the warm welcome given to Hillary Clinton on her recent swing through Asia – even in communist Vietnam – appears to show, Southeast Asians are more than happy to hang on to Pax Americana for a bit longer, out of fear of China.
Communist ideology is a spent force.
The former communist world made those choices 20 years ago.
Belarus won independence in 1991, but, since 1994, President Alexander Lukashenko has shamelessly embraced communist symbols – and methods – to cling to power.
Europe’s former communist countries can make a special contribution to the process of transition across North Africa.
In Poland, the PiS is carrying out a revolutionary reorganization of the army, the likes of which have not been seen since the imposition of communist rule.
Young Poles took to the streets of Warsaw not to chant “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh” in solidarity with the Viet Cong, but rather to defend their own country’s freedom and culture against a smothering Communist rule.
Polish, Czechoslovak, and Yugoslav students directed their protests against the Communist dictatorship, which was depriving their societies of elementary civic freedoms.
Mendacity in the Communist press, which distorted the protests’ meaning and personally attacked student leaders, inflamed matters more.
The son of a poor building worker, he had a meteoric rise through communist ranks to become party boss in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the Urals.
The Primakov government, which came to power in 1998, depended on the Communist majority in the Duma; yet even it did not dare dismantle any market institution.
Under free market capitalism we can, at long last, live up to the communist ideal, "The whole Soviet nation like one man!"
Today, our so-called revolution is still viewed differently than those that took place in other former communist countries.
Our revolution of 1989 now seems more like a coup, with one part of the communist elite simply replacing that part which had become utterly discredited.
Mr. Putin has no need for the oligarchs to provide him with media support to avert a communist threat or offer a conduit for covert state financing.
Few people have understood this better than the Polish democratic activist and thinker Adam Michnik, one of the heroes who in the 1980’s helped to end the Communist dictatorship in his country.
Communist leaders, first and foremost Gorbachev, expected increased democratization to strengthen the party's hand.
Instead, the new parliament soon got out of control by passing laws that destroyed the Communist monopoly on power and undermined Gorbachev's authority.
At the time, I did not attach much importance to them, as there remained so many ambiguities that continued Communist control seemed assured.
Despite the district communist party committee supporting someone else, I was elected.
Evgeny Primakov was also elected deputy of the USSR from the Communist list, his first step into politics.
Even Poland’s communist newspapers, read behind bars, somehow conveyed news of the great changes taking place in our neighbor to the south.
In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country’s pre-World War II past.
Polish Interior Minister Mieczyslaw Moczar, the leader of the nationalist faction, combined communist rhetoric with a language proper to fascist movements in order to mobilize the masses against the “cosmopolitan-liberal intelligentsia.”
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