The fall of the Berlin Wall was such a symbolic, visual event that it is the natural emblem of the end of Communism. But it was the culmination of a process. Much of the credit for 1989 has to go to Gorbachev, for a quiet remark he made in March to the Hungarian general secretary
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that Chinese model didn’t yet exist
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I suspect the Chinese model is to a large extent the result of seeing the results of the Russian model ;)
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"The Soviet bloc could have tried to go the way of China, and coupled rigid repression with liberalizing economic reforms." But ... didn't it, kind of (not the bloc, but the Mother)?
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