Timeline of events leading to communism's collapse

Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989:

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Raul's Reforms May Strengthen Communism

It's not the stuff of Lenin or Marx, or even of Fidel Castro, but it's hardly free-market capitalism, either. In fact, steps to encourage a Cuban spending spree may help the communist system and its new president survive.

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Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.

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We hope the US understand and support China's government's stance and concerns, properly manage the Taiwan issue, and disallow any 'pro-Tibet independence' and 'the East Turkistan' forces to commit to any moves on the American soil to separate China," Hu said.

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Czechs and Slovaks are to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution - which brought down the Communist government of the then-Czechoslovakia.

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Glenn Beck's tirades about tenuous connections have already faced a fair share of ridicule, but his boss, Rupert Murdoch, must get a little nervous every time Beck decries someone as a communist bane to the U.S.

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"The rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations," he told 1,500 prominent Japanese. The ongoing event attracted for more than 100 reporters, the large majority of whom from the US and the rest from China.

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The Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.

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I wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!

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Some would say Obama's cool detachment is narcissism. But narcissists are charmers; they know exactly what to say and do, even it's all hot air.

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TODAY is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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As many commentators observed, the ideals that led the protesters were to a large extent taken from the ruling Socialist ideology itself — people aspired to something that can most appropriately be designated as "Socialism with a human face." Perhaps this attitude deserves …

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BEIJING – Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China.

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Twenty Years After The Wall Came Down: Rethinking The Myth of Unfettered Capitalism

It is said that societies that do not know history are doomed to repeat it. In some sense then it is fitting that today, November the 9th, will pass in relative obscurity for most Americans.

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Slavoj Zizek on the weird facade of capitalism in post-Communist Europe.

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The Berlin Wall, toppled 20 years ago today, was brought down by Ronald Reagan's hawkish stand, right? Peter Beinart explodes conventional wisdom—crediting Reagan's dovish side instead...

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The 'Beijing Consensus' Won't Last --- The Party is just pioneering a new way to fail.

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Reagan deliberately confronted criminal regimes with what they fear most: the publicly spoken truth about their moral weakness.

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Who really felled the Berlin Wall? And what does it mean today? Depends who you ask...

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Obama: All Healthcare All Of The Time

Note: It is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ronald Reagan: 0 Nobel Peace Prizes President Obama: 1 Nobel Peace Prize The Politics Of Healthcare Supersedes The Security Of The Country

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" Now, I'm not nearly as smart as Frank Rich, but I do know that the single ideological bond that holds together all factions of the right is a belief in capitalism and economic freedom. Or, at least, it should be.

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There's been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase "Worst President Ever," though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition...

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The National Education Association, the organization most identified as the voice of established educators in the United States, is recommending that its members read -- and promote the reading of -- two books by Progressive radical Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals and Reveille f …

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Seeded by Shaheen Sultan Dhanji Contributed by, Mr.Vidrohi

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For India, the widening Maoist insurgency is a moment of reckoning for the country's democracy and has ignited a sharp debate about where it has failed.

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As part of its celebration marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Der Spiegel published this moving account of part of the lead-up to that historic event.

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I was tweeted a news story this weekend and read with absolute astonishment about a petition started by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich that aims to declare healthcare a civil right.

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