Word: gianfranco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...totally rejects Soviet-style Communism. Blaming the sad state of Eastern European regimes on the absence of genuine democracy, the document states heretically that orthodox Communism "ends up not only by killing liberty and creative energy but slows down the very economic, technological and cultural dynamism of society." Says Gianfranco Pasquino, professor of political science at the University of Bologna: "The Communist Party is now so far away from the Soviet Union that one can no longer speak of a possible break-the break has already taken place." That view may go too far, but even some of the Communists...