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Moscow’s reaction was not what it had been to Solidarity’s rise a decade earlier. “This is entirely a matter to be decided by Poland,” one of Gorbachev’s top aides commented. And so on August 24, 1989, the first non-communist government in postwar Eastern Europe formally took power. The new prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was sufficiently shaken by what had happened that he fainted during his own installation ceremony.11

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

Albania became the ultimate closed state, with no official contact with either the United States or the Soviet Union, and virtually no cultural or economic contact with the rest of Europe.

Eastern Europe!

Tomek E. Jankowski

How can the economy advance,” he asked, “if it creates preferential conditions for backward enterprises and penalizes the foremost ones

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis

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