Many Europeans now Miss the Soviet Bloc
Disturbingly, those with present experience of life in the Soviet Union from the 1970s to the collapse of the USSR in 1990 are nostalgic about their life in the former Soviet Bloc.
Hungary and Poland Turn on Soviet European Union
Hungary’s popular Prime Minister has labelled the European Union’s plan to make access to funding conditional on the maintenance of the rule of law as blackmail. He then repeated what retiring Soviet President Mikhael Gorbachev said by likening Brussels to the Soviet Union.
TRUTH THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR
As the saying goes, ‘history is the propaganda of the victors’ and is best seen in Wikipedia’s notorious spin. It is also recognisable in books deemed politically correct enough to be published. Palace publishers have a knee-jerk negative reaction to any submitted manuscript that departs from war victors’ speak.
Return of Perestroika
For those unfamiliar with the term, perestroika was the name given to the 1980s people’s revolt against Soviet repression in the Eastern Bloc. In Poland, Solidarity became a nationwide crusade that led to the overthrow of the despotic communist caste.
Europe Renaissance 
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