Word: socialistic
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...Having embarked upon the road of radical reform, the socialist countries are crossing the line beyond which there is no return to the past. Nevertheless, it is wrong to insist, as many in the West do, that this is the collapse of socialism. On the contrary, it means that the socialist process in the world will pursue its further development in a multiplicity of forms. Let us leave it to experts in anti-Communist propaganda to rejoice in the 'triumph of capitalism' in the cold...
Later I felt very strongly about decisions that had very little to do with reality. I expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker, Mittag and others, that opposed these international changes. You can imagine that as a man less than 50 at that time, faced with a General Secretary over 70, my views were not always accepted...
...Today we have a unique opportunity to contribute to the construction of the "European home." This seems to me a more constructive approach than to , give priority to the unity of Germany. It is obvious that the citizens of the Federal Republic have no interest in joining a socialist society, while people in this country do not want to change their socialist society into a capitalist...
...that "so long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible." Several of the country's new opposition parties also weighed in against the Kohl scheme because of their desire to maintain some kind of separate, reformed socialist state. Even so, Kohl may have many more sympathizers whose views have not been articulated in press conferences. In pro-democracy demonstrations in Leipzig during the past few weeks, banners proclaiming GERMANY, ONE COUNTRY bobbed through the crowd...
...quoted Bohuslav Kucera, chair of the small Socialist Party, as saying yesterday's meetings helped all parties involved "reach a great consensus" that should enable Calfa to form a new government...