Remember, this was after the fall of the Berlin Wall and all these govts were crumbling. It had been only days, maybe 2 weeks at the most, prior to this that my lefty friend said to me: I’ll tell who will never fall. The Romanians, because they just have that country in the tightest grip.
Then a short time later, on a major holiday day I walk into the Bodega and see the headlines.
The harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all.
Albania was the last one to fall, and that was 1991.
Fair point.
In February 1989, the Hungarian politburo recommended to the government led by Miklós Németh to dismantle the iron curtain.
In April 1989, the People’s Republic of Poland legalised the Solidarity organisation, which captured 99% of available parliamentary seats in June.
The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989.
In the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, the day after the mass crossings across the Berlin Wall, leader Todor Zhivkov was ousted.
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, following protests of an estimated half-million Czechoslovaks, the government permitted travel to the west and abolished provisions guaranteeing the ruling Communist party its leading role,
Ceaușescu Was executed on Christmas Day 1989.
It is STILL the ideal way forward for Iran.