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There is as much tearing down, of old truths as well as old structures, as of building up. The industrial plant of the east turned out to be so outmoded and run-down that most of it is beyond salvation. The east has awakened from a 40-year socialist sleepwalk to the devastating realization that countless lives have been wasted on the communists' failed experiment. The west achieved its dream of unity and freedom for "our brothers and sisters" only to discover that those siblings will be an expensive burden for some time. Dependence breeds resentment on both sides...
...park near Berlin's Alexanderplatz and scattered flowers at the base of the Marx-Engels memorial to commemorate the 173rd birthday of the philosopher who prophesied the ultimate triumph of proletarian revolution. Karl Marx, proclaimed a speaker, should not be blamed for the errors of the former Socialist Unity Party, which for 40 years had ruled East Germany. WE'LL DO BETTER NEXT TIME read a slogan someone had chalked at the base of the memorial. WE'RE NOT GUILTY said another. A third graffito was sardonically realistic: SEE YOU AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE...
...membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against those linked to the communist hierarchy or the Stasi...
...nearly 44 years since India became independent, one vision of politics and society has reigned supreme. It interweaves two powerful strands: Congress Party leader Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy of a secular, socialist government; and the nonviolence and religious tolerance exemplified by Mahatma Gandhi, the ascetic Hindu champion. In elections concluded late last week, that tradition faces an unprecedented challenge from a movement that proudly proclaims itself to be the antithesis of what Nehru, and to some extent Gandhi, represented. It rejects the "foreign" influences of Islam, Christianity, capitalism and socialism, and aspires to restore Rama Rajya, a mythical golden...
...before becoming Deputy Interior Minister in December. But even if Rutskoi does win votes from enlisted men and reform-minded Communists, Ryzhkov has earned the support of the military-industrial complex and the party bureaucracy through his attacks on economic "shock therapy" and his defense of the country's "socialist choice." Because Ryzhkov and Gromov are counting so much on local party machines and military discipline to secure votes, they have been accused in the press of waging a campaign of "limousines with flashing lights and gleaming generals' stars...