Tag: Eastern Europe
The revolutions of 1989: how the old regimes were torn down
Posted by John, November 10th, 2014 - under Revolution, Russia, Socialism, Socialism from below, State capitalism.
Tags: Eastern Europe
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Revolt swept across Eastern Europe 25 years ago, toppling the Berlin Wall and the Stalinists who built it. The real socialists were cheering, argues Tomáš Tengely-Evans in Socialist Worker UK
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A tale of two walls
Posted by John, November 5th, 2009 - under Revolution, Russian imperialism, Stalinism, State capitalism.
Tags: Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe
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The fall of the Stalinist states across Eastern Europe was a magnificent victory for the people of the region and a step forward for humanity. Time and again the working class challenged the right of the privileged few in Russia and its vassal states to rule over them politically and economically. The barbaric states that paraded […]