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Yet another totalitarian communism expanded its domination.

Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.

You know, the alternative, communism, has not worked.

Communism is the system practiced in the Soviet Union.

The American mission is to eliminate communism from the world.

Now in Bulgaria this photograph was taken in Bulgaria when communism collapsed all over Eastern Europe, it wasn't just communism it was the state that collapsed as well.

Milton Friedman's advice to countries exiting from communism apparently was privatize, privatize, privatize .

The majority though, in one way or another, had some contact with communism, through intellectual fascination, participation in state institutions, or the cold conviction that only by accepting the reality of life under communism could one do something useful for one s country. These people, tainted by communism, constituted the majority of the participants in all revolts against the communist dictatorships.

And of course, you have 1989 the end of Communism, the end of the Cold War.

But first, I would like to take you back to this event the collapse of communism.

Under Communism, public debate was confined to private kitchens. Everything beyond private space was state territory.

In the twentieth century, the soul of Europe was torn by communism, fascism and anti Semitism.

To some extent Japan and Eastern European countries after the fall of communism followed the same path.

Many people have laid down their lives for communism, and many have laid down their lives for capitalism.

In parallel with the Scandinavian crisis, communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and in 1991 in the Baltic states. Poland s first post communist finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, showed an amazed world how communism could be abolished and a market economy built almost instantly.

During the Cold War, social democracy was Western Europe s egalitarian alternative to communism. Attlee, for one, was ferociously anti communist.

Of communism of valuing the society and the state over the individual and squashing, inadvertently, creativity, individual self expression and innovation.

Of communism of valuing the society and the state over the individual and squashing, inadvertently, creativity, individual self expression and innovation.

There were, for example, those who questioned whether the Cold War was in fact necessary and whether the Soviet Union and Communism constituted a threat. Such revisionists were a distinct minority, which is a good thing, as there is no reason to believe that the Soviets and Communism were a benign force.

We took all the Germans, we divided them roughly in two, and we gave the ones in the East communism, and you see the result.

Because it's shown the way we apply, generate and use knowledge is affected by our social and institutional context, which told us what in communism?

Because it's shown the way we apply, generate and use knowledge is affected by our social and institutional context, which told us what in communism?

Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live. Imre Nagy, the leader of the Hungarian revolt in 1956, and Dubcek became parts of their national legends, which belies the claim that communism was exclusively a foreign imposition.

It may be that there was a great war to be fought between West and East, and it was necessary on the axis of democracy against communism.

And the Germans were not much better in Southwest Africa. Indeed, two of history s most terrifying ideologies, fascism and communism, were devised and embraced in continental Europe.

One lesson of the 1989 revolution in Eastern Europe is the value of having truly democratic minded figures lead the escape from communism. Poland had Lech Walesa

Wall Street has collapsed. The present crisis, the fall of Wall Street, is to neo liberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was to communism.

Communism and socialism do not command public support as they once did. Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.

The course on the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on Marxist Leninist philosophy, political economy and scientific communism were compulsory at higher education establishments.

After the Communists seized power in China in 1949, the US openly viewed Chinese Communism as benign, and thus distinct from Soviet Communism. And it was after the Communists crushed the pro democracy movement in 1989 that the US helped to turn China into an export juggernaut that has accumulated massive trade surpluses and become the principal source of capital flows to the US.

Indeed, communism was attractive for many reasons, including the idea of universal justice and humanized social relations a response to the great spiritual crisis after World War I and, later, to the Nazis genocide and the conviction that Western dominance of the world was nearing its end. Finally, in a world divided by Yalta, communism was, for some, the only realistic choice for central Europe.

And it's speculated that some of their interest in the arts was designed to counter Soviet communism and promote what it considered to be pro American thoughts and aesthetics.

The region, the U.K. and the U.S. decide, has to be kept safe from communism, and the superpower that will be created to do this would be Iran, the Shah.

One should not blame anyone today for such behavior. But it is surprising when these people accuse participants in the Prague Spring and the democratic opposition of links with communism.

But his predecessor Pope Pius XI had already done that, in the Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge ( With Burning Concern ). Pius XI had also condemned Communism, in the Encyclical Divini Redemptoris .

One lesson of the 1989 revolution in Eastern Europe is the value of having truly democratic minded figures lead the escape from communism. Poland had Lech Walesa Czechoslovakia Václav Havel.

The region, the U.K. and the U.S. decide, has to be kept safe from communism, and the superpower that will be created to do this would be Iran, the Shah.