(They are strongly opposed by Holland, the Scandinavian countries, and the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, which are familiar with communist repression.)

With the disintegration of the communist economic alliance in 1991, Czech manufacturers lost their traditional markets among former communist countries in the east.

In the former communist countries, private crime was virtually non existent, but state crime was rampant.

They prepared for inclusion of eight former Communist countries (as well Cyprus and Malta) with almost quasi religious fervor.

Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.

Many of the female operatic superstars Anna Netrebko, Elena Garanca, Angela Ghiorghiu, Magdalena Kožená, Aleksandra Kurzak come from former communist countries. Others are Asian.

Today, ten former communist nations are fully integrated members of the European Union.

But, in the former communist bloc, the benefits brought by transparency have been undeniable.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, former communist European countries were able to accede to the Council of Europe, which now comprises 47 states in Europe.

So, at last former Chinese Premier and Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang has died.

Because of his former participation in communist activities, Gould was unable to obtain a clearance.

A couple of decades later, various forms of capitalism have worked wonders for some former communist and socialist countries. Poland is an excellent example of a successful economic and political transition.

Indeed, it has been 20 years since the former communist countries of Eastern Europe rejoined the world of market exchange, a step taken as early as 1946 by social democrats around the world.

Germany primarily reacted to low wage competition from ex communist countries.

Some East European countries specifically prohibit the denial of communist genocides.

He has nothing to do with the communist era and has sacked all former Party members from important positions, even barring former Prime Minister Leszek Miller from standing for parliament.

No limits were ever imposed on players movements, except by Communist countries.

Those of us who live in Europe s new post communist democracies experienced similar political deals when we lived behind the former Iron Curtain.

Communism s fall gave the nations of the former Soviet bloc a chance to turn towards democracy, a market economy, and the rule of law. Some countries cut ties decisively with the communist past others were less successful, a few failed catastrophically.

LONDON After a year of unexplained delay, the trial of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party secretary of Chongqing municipality, is finally about to begin.

Five years after the EU s big bang expansion took in eight former communist countries to its east, the Union is in danger of losing the hearts and minds of its eastern neighbors because of its complacency and long winded approach to crises.

Local officials, particularly mayors and former mayors, councillors and former councillors, public officials, judicial officers, members of the Unión Patriótica and the Communist Party, doctors and business people were also particularly vulnerable to actions by illegal armed groups.

It was the late patriarch Deng Xiaoping who in 1992 made the surprising demand that Hu, former Secretary of the Communist Youth League and protégé of ousted party chief Hu Yaobang, be inducted into the Chinese Communist Party s (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee.

The advantages included a rapid political changeover and the assistance of some of the former Communist elite in building a free, democratic, and pro Western state.

Other post communist countries, however, have seen the opposite effect, with religion being very important in countries such as Romania, Lithuania and Poland.

Some countries cut ties decisively with the communist past others were less successful, a few failed catastrophically.

The Free World is a Cold War era term for the non communist countries of the world.

The British privatization program s greatest influence was in the former communist states, to which it gave the ideas and techniques needed to dismantle grossly inefficient command economies.

The Chinese Communist Party is not very communist any more.

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.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.

One enduring political myth that went down with Bo, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing municipality, is the notion that the Party s rule is based on meritocracy.

The French Communist Party (, PCF ) is a communist party in France.

The Communist Party of Bolivia () is a communist party in Bolivia.

Considering the communist focus on the future, content production for children was not a trifling matter in socialist countries.

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.

The incursion has even been linked to the scandal surrounding Chongqing s disgraced former Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, who had close ties with high ranking PLA and security services officers.

The country is gradually turning into an industrial bazaar that is relocating its workbench to low wage ex communist countries.

There has been an increase in the number of requests for protection from the programme by trade unionists, members of the Unión Patriótica and the Communist Party, journalists and former mayors.

I established Open Society Foundations in all the countries of the former Soviet Union.

The missing person on the second photo is Lin Biao, a former Chinese Communist Part leader who was condemned as a traitor after his failed attempt to escape to Mosco in 1971.

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

It was no accident that communist countries were (and are) usually run by geriatric leaders, and democracies by younger men and women.

Artek was considered to be a privilege for Soviet children during its existence, as well as for children from other communist countries.

Access to the visual history of most former colonial countries in Africa is usually a challenging proposition because former colonial powers restrict access to historical archives.