Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowds beneath the statue of St. Wenceslas in downtown Prague kept growing, in size and in confidence. By late last week they had swelled into the largest protests in Czechoslovakia's history: a half million chanting, shouting, horn- honking people, all bent on ousting the repressive rule of Communist Party leader Milos Jakes. They achieved their primary objective in just eight days...
Czechoslovakia now joins the astonishing avalanche of change that is overtaking Eastern Europe. Poland was the first to move, electing a non- Communist government in August. In the past six weeks, upheavals have taken place in the Hungarian, East German and Bulgarian Communist parties. Nor were events in Prague the only remarkable developments that took place last week...
From the election of a Solidarity government in Poland to the opening of the Berlin Wall to the announced end of Communist monopoly rule in Czechloslovakia, the East is entering uncharted waters, and the West wants to know what it all means--immediately...
...crazy theorist once suggested that video games are a Communist plot to distract our young people from their studies so that the United States would lose its competitive edge...
...shouldn't stop there. Promoting democracy means more than encouraging reform in the communist bloc. It means adopting a foreign policy based on respect for human rights and political freedom rather than on Cold War ideological prejudices. It means using American influence and moral example to eliminate human rights abuses in nations of all ideological persuasions...