The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe.

From: The National Interest | Date: December 22, 1993| Author: Stone, Norman | Copyright information

SOME TIME IN early 1988, Zbigniew Brzezinski came to London and lectured on "the spring-time of peoples." On the evidence of pamphlets and "feel," he said that communism would soon be over. There would be rebellion everywhere, and the nations would claim freedom. By his title, "Spring-time of Peoples," he was evoking 1848. In that year, the buds leafed in February, there was a revolt in Paris, and revolt followed, nearly everywhere else in Central Europe, within weeks. The old men of...

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