All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... There was constant societal opposition to communist rule in Eastern Europe. ... It also shows how weak communist rule in East Germany really was. ... Events eventually culminated with the building of the Berlin Wall which was the ultimate expression of Soviet and communist force and coercion in maintaining the communist regime. ... A Soviet imposed communist regime under Janos Kadar was set up. (12) The tenuous communist grip on control is again illustrated here. ...

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Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ... The anti-Communist hysteria that was taking control of the U.S. came as a result of many different factors following the end of World War Two. ... Finally, the Communist takeover in China, the USSR's detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 all led the U.S. to not only distrust, but to fear any communist-related groups either in the USSR or the U.S. ... Actors, directors, producers, and writers were all under close watch by the government...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ... In 1929 Khrushchev moved to Moscow to attend the Stalin Industrial Academy, where he soon became leader of the academy's Communist Party organization. ... A firm supporter of Stalin during his early career, Khrushchev became a secretary of the Central Committee o...

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The focus of work change in Chinese Communist Party smoothly transforms the theme of films from socialism to capitalism, from community to individual, from altruism to egoism. ... Everyone welcomes this good characteristic at that time because an individual should behave like this under the leadership of Chinese Communist Party. ... [The film] praises the sense of solidarity inspired by the Communist revolution ... ...

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The red army was the communists of the country. ... War breaks out and because of the communist forces, and the communists make the decision to engage in the "Long March.... After the battle they return to their civil war and in 1949 the communists secure victory and China becomes a communist country. ... In China the communists were forced to walk a 6,000 mile journey to succeed while in Russia, communists merely had to win the battle. Both countries battled nationalists and communists and the communists were successful on both sides. ...

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Communists, perhaps above all other groups, were looked on with the most suspicion and were eventually the main target of the U.S. attack on these groups. ... The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ... They were seen, or at least their leaders were, as agents of the communists and the other radi...

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The Soviet Union was communist and failed, as a matter of fact, even communism in present day country's, such as China, is deteriorating. ... One major reason why communism has failed in the past and is failing in the present is because communist governments can never be completely communist because communism really shouldn't have a leader. Actually, almost every who has tried to have a communist government country (Cuba, North Korea, The Soviet Union and China), ends up with a totalitarian government. ... Finally, and probably most importantly, communist governments can't compe...

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Hungarian communists were gradually gaining control of Hungary's government. Matthias Rakosi was head of the communist party, and head of the government. ... Some communists in free nations protested by resigning from the party. ... In 1988, fortunately for the Hungarians the Communist Party's power started to erode. ... A non-communist party won a majority of the parliamentary seats. ...

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The French, British, and American zones were all capitalistic regions, whereas the Soviet zone was communistic. ... Later, communist China helps North Korea push South Korea back to almost its original border, however, two million deaths occurred, 50,000 of which were American. ... In 1959, Cuba had become communist under Fidel Castro. ... Luckily, the US was able to avoid conflict by containing the communist countries from spreading and influencing other countries. If the Soviets tried to force communist views on the US, there would have been a high chance of conflict, war, or in the worst c...

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Kennedy, American University Speech, June 10, 1963 The Cold War was a time in American History during the twentieth century where the Communist nations were fighting against the non-Communist nations. ... The United States led the fight against Communist nations, like Russia. ... It kept on going, however, due to the American communists, communist sympathizers, and citizens trying to achieve social justice. ... These films all presented traits similar to either the communists or the stereotypical description of communists. ... Therefore, it is likely that the directors were Anti-Communist. ...

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On March 1985, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia. ... In semi-democratic parliamentary elections in Poland, the Communists were roundly defeated and soon forced to accept a non-Communist prime minister. ... Discontent soon spread to East Germany, as it became clear that Gorbachev would not use force to put down anti-Communist revolts". ... In Romania, the communist Party of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular protest and by the force of arms in December 1989. The fall of the communist parties in Bulgaria and Albania soon follo...

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The Soviets reluctance to reunify Korea and the strong Communist atmosphere in North Korea also disgruntled Americans and hurt diplomatic relations. Overall, each step that the Soviet Union took to strengthen its power and the power of the Communist party was viewed as an act of aggression, and there are many historians who strongly believe that the Soviets were at fault in the instigation of the Cold War due to these immense acts of aggression. ... As the Soviet Union grew more and more powerful, every American grew more frightened of the Communist movement. No event greater exemplified this ...

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Tito's Communist military power expanded and became the National Liberation Army. ... Stalin wanted to add Yugoslavia to the East European Communist bloc. ... After release form jail, Tito began to strengthen the Yugoslavian Communist Party. ... For example, the break affected American perception of the communist world. The split proved not all communist countries were aligned with the Soviet Union. ...

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At first glance this may not be apparent to the average reader, but with a closer look each animal has a characteristic of a Communist leader. ... He changed each Communist leader into an animal, and the Soviet Union as a country into a country-side farm. Much controversy came from Orwell's interpretation of the Communist leaders as pigs, since pigs are regarded as filthy and unclean animals. ... Or in Orwell's eyes, Stalin acting as a Communist. ... It is easy to make the connection between Communist Soviet Union and the farm and how it is run by Napoleon once it is understood. ...

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Senator Joe McCarthy, that people you knew could be a communist sympathizer, communist themselves, or even a spy. ... Joe McCarthy had everyone pointing fingers naming this person and that person communist or communist sympathizer. During McCarthyism it was the fear or thought, that anyone you knew, you neighbor, co-worker, boss, or even brother or sister could in fact be a communist. ... Also coming together with the idea of conformity and refuting the ideals of the 1950s is that the movie is indirectly calling society's conformist ways, communist ways. ...

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Joseph Stalin Essay Joseph Stalin was the head of the communist party and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953. ... The communist party was the only party allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. ... The Communist party was made to serve Stalin's needs and not those of the communist party. ... Loyalty was expected not only from citizens but from the communist party and the secret police as well. ... Stalin then expanded the communist system to other countries of eastern Europe. ...

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At Yalta, Stalin had promised to include non-communists in the new Polish government and to hold free elections. ... The provisional government, established in Poland at the end of the war, was controlled by communists. ... When elections were finally held in Poland in 1947, the communists" provisional government claimed victory. In fact, more than 80% of the votes had voted against the communists. In spite of protests from the United States and Britain, communist rule in Poland continued. ...

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Another party that struggled for control of the country during this time was the communists. ... The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was then incorporated into the Guomindang, in order to consolidate power within the country (4). ... A rift in the communist ideal existed between the two countries. ... In 1962, the Soviets backed India in its long-standing border dispute with China (2), and when the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, in an attempt to aid communist forces in the event of "anti-communist uprisings-, China feared that they could be next. ... This helped to ...

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The German Democratic Republic was a communist government, which most people didn't like because they suffered under repressions of the communists. ... By 1961, the communist government knew it had to stop the exodus. ... In 1989, the first free labor union was founded in the Communist Poland, which meant the end of the communist system had begun. ... Gorbatshov reformed the stalinistic system, but didn't replace the communist system completely. These reforms had major effects on other communist countries, especially Poland and Hungary. ...

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The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... Not only did the USA fail to stop South Vietnam going Communist, but the heavy bombing of Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. ... From there it became fairly easy to go from being a nationalist to being a communist. ... The Soviet-Afghan War that dragged on for a decade was between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan Mujahidin guerrillas and the communist Afghan government and Soviet forces. ... They say...

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The Warsaw Pact is, overlooked part of the Cold War, was a key factor in the communist countries and in relations to N.A.T.O. ... It was not created for the sole purpose of making every country in Europe Communist. ... This "de-Stalinization- process as he called it replaced Stalinist Polish and Hungarian leaders with Communist party figures who could run the country. ... Imre Nagy, the leader of the Communist party in Hungary, withdrew his nation from the Warsaw Pact and ended its alliance with the Soviet Union. ... A new threat to the Warsaw Pact arose in Czechoslovakia, in 1968, when A...

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Therefore Reagan gave support to a lot of anti communist movement in Eastern Europe. ... It was the first group of people that gave demands to the communist government and was agreed by the government in Poland and their popularity was extremely high. Though it was stopped by the communist government when it was seemed too strong. ... He introduced the new policies of "openness" and "restructuring" and tried to use these policies to make the communist USSR more popular. ...

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He took control of Cuba in 1959 and established a Communist dictatorship. ... Castro held power since 1959; president since 1976; formerly prime minister; first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, and the Commander of the Armed Forces. ... He established a communist government with himself as a dictator and began relations with the Soviet Union. ... His greatest achievement is the consolidation of a Communist regime in the Caribbean, so close to Cuba's main antagonist. ...

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