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Article: Solidarity's glorious game. (Polish politics)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 15, 1989
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TIANANMEN SQUARE demonstrated for all the world to see the brutality with which Communists react when Communism itself is at stake. Communism is the wave of the future, we were taught for years, and once installed could never be overthrown except by external force. The boundaries of the West were negotiable, but never the boundaries of the Communist empire. That was what Leonid Brezhnev proclaimed in 1968-21 years ago last week-after the suppression of Czechoslovakia's attempt to move toward "Communism with a human face." What is once socialist is always socialist, Brezhnev told the world, and the world seemed to accept this new Communist gospel.
But that was ...