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industrial heartland, he focused the second half of his book on arguing that socialism provides a means for improving living conditions for the populace and that "everyone who uses his
brain knows that Socialism, as a world-system and wholeheartedly applied" would "ensure out getting enough to eat even if it deprived us of everything else" (Orwell 171). Nevertheless, socialism, as
implemented by the communist regimes instituted by the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, failed utterly. The following examination of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe considers the challenges that
communist legitimacy faced after 1956, as well as why de-Stalinization failed to solve these challenges and problems. After 1949, the regimes that were installed by the Soviet Union throughout
Eastern Europe, that is, in "Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the newly created German Democratic Republic, were referred to by various designations, which varied according to the perspective of
the speaker: "socialism, totalitarianism, Stalinism," as well as others (Ash 131). While there is consensus that the end of communism in Eastern Europe occurred in 1989, the question of when
its downfall began is more controversial. Throughout the decades following World War II there was periodic support for socialism and the ideas promoted by Eastern European communist regimes. For
example, Georges Perecs Things: A Story of the Sixties is a novel that can be interpreted as a sociological denunciation of capitalism and the consumer society that capitalism creates (Bellos
9). It was during this period that that the Soviet Union seemed to be a "centrifuge of progress and political liberation" (Bren 831). However, this attitude did not last very
long and there are those who argue that communism in Eastern Europe was doomed from its onset (Ash 132). Others feel that the communism failed due to "missed opportunities or
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