Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Communism Survives but Change is Coming
The communist government remained in power in Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and China. North Korea relied on the Soviets for their economic support, but once the fall of the Soviet Union they had to rely on China. China started to move towards a system similar to the United States, and many people started to protest because they wanted change and more freedom in their country. However, the Chinese government did not want change. For example, in June 1989 the Chinese authorities decided to stop the protest for democracy by sending the army to stop the protesters. A protester wanted to show serious he was about democracy, so he stood in front of all the tanks so they could not move. Once they moved, he moved with them. China did stop the protest, but China is slowly making progress to becoming a more free country.
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Also around this time was when communism started to fall in many Eastern European countries. Before, whenever Eastern European countries would try to revolt against communist governments, they would just be crushed by the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union stopped doing this, causing communism to fall in several of those countries.
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