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These people, “tainted by communism,” constituted the majority of the participants in all revolts against the communist dictatorships.
The Prague Spring appealed to elementary values: freedom, pluralism, tolerance, sovereignty, and rejection of the dictates of communist orthodoxy.
And four months ago Poland's former prime minister nominated Longin Pastusiak, formerly a Communist ideologue and foe of NATO, to be Defense Minister (a bid that also had to be withdrawn when President Lech Walesa opposed it).
They gathered momentum after a summer of labor strikes, when Poland’s communist chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, concluded that the country’s economic troubles were too grim to face alone.
They devised an electoral system whereby Poles would not vote for candidates of their choice, but would cross out those they did not want – which is to say, each and every communist.
Most counted on the party’s media monopoly to carry their message, such as it was: “Vote Lezek, a good communist.”
Many optimistic observers of China, often mollified by their close relations with the Communist regime, bet on a soft transition from despotism toward an open society, but recent events don’t support such a benign interpretation.
For the Helsinki accords catalyzed opposition movements in communist countries, those men and women who took the accords signed by their governments seriously, using them to intensify their struggle, challenging the very essence of totalitarianism.
There are millions of people in China today whose lives were devastated by the Communist regime.
While much of the communist party's view of history is now discredited, it is also true that competing views of the past are not allowed.
People quickly discovered that the “students” allowed to ask questions at Obama’s town-hall meeting in Shanghai were young Communist party activists.
Moreover, unlike with other US presidents, the event was not broadcast nationwide, and Nanfang Zhoumo’s full interview with Obama did not appear in the newspaper, despite the Communist Party propaganda departments’ advance approval of all the interview questions.
For America, Russia, too, was an evil empire, the world of communist expansionism and a nuclear superpower, but also a cradle of science, spirit, and soul.
Today, ten former communist nations are fully integrated members of the European Union.
It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than Western devotees of free markets.
In Pinochet’s Chile or General Jorge Rafael Videla’s Argentina, anyone who complained about government-sponsored violence was painted as a member of an international communist conspiracy.
So long as the Union's borders remain closed, there is also a risk that foreign investment will fly over Western Europe and land in Central and Eastern Europe, where people are willing to work longer hours, market regulations are less intrusive, and human capital is relatively high, because Communist schools were good at technical training.
Now we are free to enjoy and profit from our growingcontacts with literary comrades (a word that may have poisonous associations inthe former communist countries, but that continues to be used here for its connotationof genuine human solidarity) from our own continent and with whomever willinvite us to their countries or, even better, come to ours.
In former communist countries, many (sometimes most) big firms were misbegotten from the start.
He told me that the district chairman of communist East Berlin had suddenly announced temporary regulations permitting travel by private citizens.
Their commitment against the injustice of the communist regime is for me one of the best chapters in German history.
The opening of Hungary's borders that autumn and the seeking of refuge by East German citizens in the German embassies of Prague and Warsaw already had shaken communist and Stasi rule to its their foundations.
With regard to the new German states, both the transition toward democracy and a free society, and the structural changes made to the former communist economy, have been successful, though these tasks will undoubtedly require the energy and labors of several generations before they are completely fulfilled.
Putin needs a credible rival, not the same old Kremlin-linked candidates – the communist Gennady Zyuganov, the nationalist buffoon Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and the purported liberal Grigory Yavlinsky – to join the race.
Emperor Xi’s DilemmaLONDON – I once spoke with a Chinese academic whose parents had fled China during the 1930s, appalled by the greed and corruption rampant in the country before the communist revolution.
Daniel Bell and Raymond Aron wrote about the end of fascist and communist ideology in the hope that we would enter an age of pragmatism in which politics would be a subject of argument and debate, not belief and total worldviews.
Likewise, while the nationalism of America’s principal rival, China, has become more assertive lately, the communist regime’s clear priority – indeed, the key to its stability – is domestic economic growth.
Every Communist regime since the Russian Revolution of 1917 has sought to use the “united front” to extend the power of the party, both at home and abroad, in ways that may be subtle or overt, but are invariably underhanded.
But a few Chinese in Australia have allowed themselves to become foot soldiers of China’s Leninist (not really communist) dictatorship, manipulated by Chinese diplomats and a few businessmen.
Mitigation of carbon emissions to reduce global warmingThe Return of the Madman TheoryMOSCOW – In the 1970s, US President Richard Nixon instructed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to convince the leaders of hostile communist countries that he could be erratic and volatile, particularly when under pressure.
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