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The Balkan EndgameROME – Twenty years after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the communist regime in Albania, the western Balkans region is at a turning point once again.
But 1989 also awakened ancient antipathies and mythologies that had been repressed in the Communist era.
During the communist era, Yugoslavia provided a sharp contrast with the Soviet bloc.
Attacking a communist country has always seemed to offer American politicians a convenient way to appeal to the average voter.
For example, one of Macierewicz’s closest business and political associates after 1989 was Robert Lusnia, later found to have served as an informant both during and after the communist period, his recent handlers most likely being agents of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) operating in Poland.
In the Middle East and Central Asia, this policy seems at times to have assumed predominance comparable to that of the former doctrine of deterrence deployed against the Soviet Union and its Communist allies.
Others, for the same reason, regarded Hong Kong as a dangerous Trojan horse that could seriously undermine the Communist order.
The happy transitions across much of Central Europe following the end of the Cold War were made easier by the fact that the old communist order more or less died on its feet and surrendered power peacefully.
Lady Macbeth of PyongyangTOKYO – North Korea’s communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun.
So the most fateful attack that accompanied the installation of Communist power everywhere was an attack on civil society.
Many democratic, even anti-Communist politicians are now, paradoxically, defending the overblown governmental powers that are relics of the Communist era.
In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU.
Importing laws and legal standards has dominated attempts by former communist countries to join the West.
Fascist and communist regimes of the past, which followed a similar instrumentalist approach to democracy, come to mind here.
Sadly, as the title from one of Russia’s most beloved movies of the communist era tells us, it still seems that “Moscow (or at least its Patriarch) does not believe in tears.”
Only an authoritarian communist regime could summon the level of mass conformity required in such a production.
But whether they belong to the extreme right or the communist left, they represent barely 20% of the electorate.
Germans thinking about the likelihood of transfers to southern Europe doubtless recall their country’s reunification after the collapse of communist East Germany in 1989-1990.
Since China had been bullied, invaded, semi-colonized, and even occupied during most of his formative years, he was deeply suspicious that any foreign country – even a “fraternal” Communist ally – could ever be relied upon to leave China alone, much less actually help it.
Supported by the traditional economic theories taught at most universities, this approach was energized after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when the former communist countries, together with China, joined the Western-dominated world order, boosting total production and consumption.
With the collapse of the Soviet communist regime, the US continues to enjoy a dominant role in space exploration for peaceful and scientific development.
The communist slogan "Proletarians of the world, unite!" was interpreted by some as a sublimated expression of homosexuality.
A weaker leader could not have taken such an ambitious step, which represents a real break with past Communist orthodoxy.
No communist leader, indeed, ever held humanist values.
The communist Cuba he helped to forge is an undisputed and unmitigated failure, much more impoverished and much less free than it was before its “liberation.”
NEW YORK – Sometime in the 1980’s, when the communist regime in Poland was facing serious challenges from disaffected masses, the regime’s official spokesman, Jerzy Urban, remarked to a foreign journalist that there were only two choices in Poland: communism or domination by the Catholic Church.
First, your own eyes and your reason would surely tell you before long that the communist idyll – the withering away of the state and the triumph over need – would never come.
The second application of Groucho’s question was that citizens of most Communist countries soon learned that the loss of freedom that they suffered was not compensated by greater prosperity or a higher quality of life.
The first – around 30% of the voting population – is made up of political extremes, mostly hard core communist supporters for whom "party discipline"and unqualified hatred of everything since the Soviet Union's collapse trumps all other considerations.
In other former Communist countries, democratic changes were sometimes accompanied by violence.
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