Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Krenz reaffirmed the Communist Party's pre-eminence yesterday, telling military academy graduates it was "at the head of qualitative changes going on in society...
Leipzig activists told The Associated Press by telephone many of the marchers there demanded that the Communist Party give up its monopoly on power...
They said the protesters wanted free elections, freedom to travel and legalization of opposition groups. Political parties now are recognized only if they align themselves with the Communist Party...
That was a major departure from the contention of his 77-year-old predecessor, Erich Honecker, that no changes were necessary in East Germany's orthodox regime. Krenz replaced Honecker, his mentor, as Communist Party chief October...
...Deng Xiaoping once said it did not matter whether cats were black or white so long as they caught mice. Now the Chinese leader is determined that his cats will be red. Four months after his crackdown on the prodemocracy movement, the first tocsin for a "purification" of the Communist Party has been sounded. The Beijing municipal party headquarters announced that all its members must reregister by the end of 1990, and those deemed "hostile and antiparty" will be purged. Diplomats estimate that as many as 50,000 of the party's members in the capital might be expelled. Party...