Under Communism, public debate was confined to private kitchens.

Slovak autonomy was constrained the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) was reunited with the KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia), but retained its own identity.

Under Communism, public debate was confined to private kitchens. Everything beyond private space was state territory.

Unfortunately, the way of thinking that supported Communist dictatorships has not disappeared entirely.

But he stays too long (Uganda s Yoweri Museveni comes to mind).

After all, the West is not deterred in the slightest from dealing with authoritarian Russia and communist China.

Many Chinese do not accept communist rule precisely because the Communist Party denies its past, (and remains) unapologetic about its cruelty.

After the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the city became part of the Eastern Bloc.

Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also ran.

Of course, the Communist Party has deemed the Cultural Revolution a catastrophe, a judgment supported by mainstream opinion.

In the Cold War years, Lincoln's image shifted to emphasize the symbol of freedom who brought hope to those oppressed by communist regimes.

Transparency is my best protection under totalitarianism.

For 45 years, Myanmar s people have been subjected to the junta s reign of terror.

Sadly, Belgrade s vision of Kosovo returning to Serbian rule albeit with autonomy ignores these realities.

They remained in jail in Riyadh without legal representation until the final verdict.

Russia's people wanted to make a difference and amazingly they did their energy and cohesion put an end to Communist rule.

Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.

Either man would be the first prime minister who was not born in the British Raj.

In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.

Indeed, for everyone in the former communist world who sought to build a free society out of the wreckage of totalitarianism, the Iron Lady became a secular icon.

There are no cultural institutions in Syria, no private independent NGOs, no civic institutions, who represent the populations except the government?

Solidarity suffered that frustration in Poland in 1980 81, which prolonged communist rule for a decade.

Here, I interviewed people who were residents of formerly communist countries, who had all faced the challenge of transitioning to a more democratic and capitalistic society.

The title does not actually date back to before Mongolia's democratisation, but the office itself is seen as extending through Mongolia's period of communist rule.

President Boris Yeltsin s main ideological project, completed in 2000, aimed to undo symbolically the years of communist rule and return Russia to its past.

During the Round Table negotiations that brought about the end of communist rule, a compromise was reached between the reform wing of the communist government and Solidarity.

Maybe this behavior is attributable to the imminent leadership change, with an aggressive faction in the Communist Party Politburo and Central Committee needing to be mollified.

In the final weeks of Communist rule, Mazowiecki helped to establish a model for negotiated political transition that still informs, inspires, and guides other societies on the cusp of change.

Although the involvement of KKE in the uprisings was universally known, the party remained legal until 1948, continuing to coordinate attacks from its Athens offices until proscription.

But under ineffectual governance, particularly during the last three years, India is in danger of degenerating into a soft state.

He was careful not to humiliate Gorbachev, and to manage the transition to Boris Yeltsin s presidency in a newly independent Russia.

For years, China s ruling Communist Party has maintained that Taiwan is a core national interest, despite the reality that Taiwan has existed and functioned as a virtual state for 60 years.

My interlocutor thought I was joking. What the Chinese practice is rule by law the law as defined by the Communist Party to its own advantage.

' The Algerian Communist Party (in French Parti Communiste Algérien ) was a communist party in Algeria.

The popular vote was hailed as an important step in the country s transition from military to civilian rule, and the economy has made impressive strides under President Thein Sein s civilian government.

Bureaucratization, anonymous manipulation, and emphasis on mass conformism were brought to perfection in the Communist system however, some of the very same threats are with us today.

With the Bank tirelessly preaching the merits of good governance, its failure to adopt democratic principles undercuts its own legitimacy.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (Filipino Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ) is a leading communist party in the Philippines.

For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist run countries in the twentieth century, the me in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.

Young Poles took to the streets of Warsaw not to chant Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh in solidarity with the Viet Cong, but rather to defend their own country s freedom and culture against a smothering Communist rule.

One reason for unification was that the international communist movement, represented by the Communist Party of India, Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Australia, called for party unification.

Given the complexity of space affairs, the specifics of each scenario must be judged with patience, caution and in coordination with one another.

While revolutions in the late 1980 s and early 1990 s were directed against totalitarian communist regimes, nowadays they aim to get rid of this mafia type post communism.

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union () was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Corruption is widespread, and PDP politicians have been unable to deliver the prosperity and improved social services that Nigerians looked forward to following the return of democracy.