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Article: The collapse of Communism.
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- National Review
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- August 5, 1988
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THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM
It is fascinating, is it not, to witness the collapse of Communism. But is this, in fact, what we are witnessing? In one sense, the All-Union Conference of the Communist Party at the end of June was a gigantic funeral service: the burial of a doctrine and of the hopes and delusions built upon it. But Mikhail Gorbachev was presenting the occasion in different terms: as a time of hope and of rebuilding.
Before coming back to the General Secretary, let us glance elsewhere--at North Korea, for instance. One would have said that (leaving aside the very peculiar case of Albania) North Korea shared with Rumania the special distinction ...