Every time you turn around, somebody's calling somebody else a red.

They had to actually run a state based on these ideas of Communism.

Men and women who found strength in their belief in Communism resisted the Nazis with equal tenacity.

The Solidarity movement of the 1980 s and the peaceful overthrow of communism was, in large measure, the work of their generation.

Authoritarian party states, such as China and Vietnam, survive, but not through commitment to communism.

But it is surprising when these people accuse participants in the Prague Spring and the democratic opposition of links with communism.

My father had land in Lasiana a house and rice fields but because he was accused of being a communist, his family took it.

But Soviet nostalgia has far more to do with Russia s traditional Great Power ambitions than with communism.

75. Persons have reportedly been killed in an arbitrary manner after being accused of being communists, as was the case with a number of former officers.

In Czechoslovakia, Charter 77 was founded in January 1977 members of that group would later play key roles in the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia.

Of course, capitalism remains more compatible with personal freedom than communism ever was.

Indeed, some now wonder if the recent financial crisis has done to liberal capitalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall did to communism.

First, social inequality has grown unabated in the West over the last quarter century, owing in part to the disappearance of the Soviet Union and, with it, the threat of expansionist communism.

We are radical as hell but our political and social institutions have not changed and this is where we are stagnating because we always equate any new idea with communism or regimentation because we have been brought up to fear that which is new.

After they overthrew communism in 1989, the peoples of Central Europe gravitated to democracy because that was the prevailing form of government in the countries of Western Europe, with which they strongly identified.

During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in Communism behind the iron curtain.

One should not blame anyone today for such behavior. But it is surprising when these people accuse participants in the Prague Spring and the democratic opposition of links with communism.

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies.

The two principal schools of thought were roll back and containment. The former argued that nothing less than overthrowing communism regime change in today s parlance would do.