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kjc2242 asked:


-Karol Jozef Wojtyla

-Vaclav Havel

-Mikhail Gorbachev

-Lech Walesa

kjc2242 asked:


How did Gorbachev’s reforms affect the Soviet satellite states? Select the best answer.

-The people increased their demands for more freedom from Communist Party rule.

-Dissidents became very afraid for their lives and no longer protested.

-Fearing change, the people agreed to continue to live under totalitarian oppression.

-None of the above.

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Who was the Solidarity leader who called for greater freedom and an end to censorship in Poland?

-Karol Jozef Wojtyla

-Vaclav Havel

-Mikhail Gorbachev

-Lech Walesa

What You Talkin’ About? asked:


After all, he

- increased taxes on working people twice (one was the largest tax increase in history)

- increased the size of the federal government (one of the few in modern history to actually increase the number of per capita federal employees)

- tripled the national debt

- started an endless War on Drugs (only a Republican would think of declaring war on ourselves) that is a bigger failure and longer failure that the Iraq War.

All the above is true. If you deny it you are a liar.

And finally, he did not end the cold war or stop the Soviet Union. Praising Reagan while ignoring those like Gorbechiev, Lech Walesa, and Vaclav Havel (people who actually DID something) is flat out delusional. But I guess that is right up the alley of conservatives.
Once again…it is all true. Why don’t you research it yourself…and I am not talking about wacko right wing webistes or talk radio.
Your right Fed Up….but I can’t devote my life to listing all the things Reagan did that conservatives love to ignore….yes there was the secret deals with terrorists, an illegal war in South America, cutting and running from Lebannon after a terrorist attack on the Marines….. I mean, who has time to list everything???

lankhai2006 asked:


Do you think among those former dissidents, Vaclav Havel is the best leader in post-communist Eastern Europe? Boris Yeltsin brought down communism in Soviet Union, but later he became drunk and fat, and his children are said to be corrupt businesspeople. Gorbachev and Walesa are disliked in their own countries.

What do you think?

Jen L asked:


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In which country did the communist government give up power in a peaceful transition and Vaclav Havel become the democratically elected president?

In which country did Lech Walesa become president after the communist government fell?

In _______________________, crowds stormed government buildings and overthrew the communist regime.