COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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They only allowed members of the communist party to run for office.
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They denied free elections and installed communist governments.
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These countries freely elected communist leaders and governments.
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They assassinated any leader elected to office that was not a member of the communist party.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took control. They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin. It promised the workers would rise, destroy capitalism, and create a socialist society under the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union’s ideological commitment to achieving communism included the development of socialism in one country and peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries while engaging in anti-imperialism to defend the international proletariat, combat capitalism and promote the goals of communism.
Detailed explanation-3: -After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 1989 Round Table Talks led to Solidarity’s participation in the 1989 election. Its candidates’ striking victory gave rise to the first of the succession of transitions from communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe.