I dunno about Eastern Europe, but only a minority "rose up" against the "Communist system" in the Soviet Union, Baltic States excepted (that was mainly nationalist anyway). By 1989 the majority of the population was against Perestroika.
--- "M.A. Hoare" <mah20 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Yes, I've heard such defences of the Communist
> system. But I'm sure if the
> Communist system was so wonderful, the East
> Europeans wouldn't have risen
> against it in 1989. As for the crimes of Ceausescu
> having "nothing to do
> with Romania's 'Communist' regime" - I find that a
> somewhat bizarre
> statement...
>
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