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Three East European countries want no part of the Soviet stand. "I don't think it is a practical proposition," said Polish Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "Through neutrality you might easily isolate that economic giant and create a situation where Germany tries to become a power or a superpower." He said Poland would support an arrangement under which Germany remained in NATO if Western troops did not move forward into what is now East Germany. Hungary and Czechoslovakia supported the Poles...
That same year, 1956, the thaw melted too quickly as far as the Kremlin was concerned. Polish crowds demonstrated to demand a change of leadership. The Hungarians even overthrew their government and enjoyed one heady week of independence. Then Khrushchev sent in Soviet tanks to restore the old order. When he was forced out in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev seemed even more determined to maintain that old order forever, sending more tanks to suppress Czech independence in 1968 and warning that he would do so again whenever necessary. He too proclaimed a new constitution in 1977, declaring more strongly than ever...
...Barney asks for a one-week extension, gets it, and uses the time to really polish his paper. He gets an A. Is this just? I think...
...democratic New Socialist Party, is a democratic socialist. So is Jens Reich, founder of the East German opposition front New Forum. And so is Zhelyu Zehlev, leader of the Bulgarian opposition group Union of Democratic Forces. And Solidarity, you will recall, is a labor union, not the Polish Chamber of Commerce...
...words of an old Polish proverb, "Under capitalism man exploits man, whereas under communism, the reverse is true." The solution for Eastern Europe lies somewhere in between, in a system with private ownership of capital, private capital markets, active labor markets, social security and government by the people. In other words, the answer is social democracy...