Word: noncommunists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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East Germany's first freely elected parliament got down to business last week after approving a new noncommunist coalition government. In the space of six hours the legislators...
Last summer, when Solidarity formed the first noncommunist government in Eastern Europe in four decades, Walesa could easily have headed it. But he chose instead to nominate Mazowiecki, a longtime Solidarity activist, as Prime Minister. He also accepted Jaruzelski as President, partly to ensure continuity during the transition but also to reassure the Soviets at a time when no one was certain just how much reform they would allow...
...years and three Soviet premiers later, Poland has elected a noncommunist prime minister. Poland showed the rest of the Eastern European countries, as well as the rest of the world, that the chains can be broken...
...East Berlin from the one I have been reading about: triumphant, its citizens ready to join their brethren in a single, capitalist Germany. The East Berlin I visited last month was a gray city whose citizens seemed to be reeling, exhausted, sad, confused, angry. Hopeful, yes, of rebuilding a noncommunist socialist democracy, separate from the West but in some way affiliated. Wary of capitalism and worried about any prospect suggesting reunification...
...Vaclav Havel, the often imprisoned leader of dissent, who has conjured up what may be the new nemesis of world communism: "the power of the powerless." On Dec. 10 what Havel called the "velvet revolution" swept away the government. In a new Cabinet of 21, there are now eleven noncommunists. The formation of rival parties has been legalized and Civic Forum, the noncommunist coalition, has decided to join in free elections likely to be held...