Quote: wannabuyamonkey said: Except that your error not only demonstrates that you're unclear on one historical example, but that you're unclear as to the principles and practice of communism. Even if you didn't know the specifics of that particular event, if you understood communism you would have been better able to guess what happened to end it. That's why a very wise man once said "How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
Quote: The communist party lost its monopoly of power. In the USSR, multi-candidate elections were held for the first time.d In Poland, Solidarity emerged from underground to win a stunning electoral victory over the communists and form the first coalition government in Eastern Europe since 1948. In Hungary, the communists agreed to multi-party elections, which occurred the next year.
