The Communist experiment

Richard Bewes  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Mar 2017
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The Communist experiment

Richard Bewes reflects on the revolution of 1917 and its fruit in the last 100 years

Forget Trump for the moment.

Exactly 100 years ago it was Lenin – and Russia’s great Communist experiment. But, by the end of 1989, it was over. The Russian cosmonauts who were rocketed into space in the Spring of that year had left their world with the Berlin Wall intact, with Ceaușescu of Romania firmly in place and Czechoslovakia and Hungary still under their long-term jackboot rule.

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