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A 3 page research paper that contrasts and compares 2 revolutions in the Soviet bloc in the 1980s, specifically Poland and Romania. The writer examines what occurred in each country and the Soviet reaction. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Kremlin demonstrated the willingness of Soviet leaders to ruthlessly crush any opposition in its satellite countries, as it did in Hungary in the 1950s. However, the 1980s saw a
marked change in the political atmosphere of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Gorbachev and the Soviet Communist Party realized the dire need for change in order for the USSR
to survive. Therefore reforms were instituted and satellite states were afforded more autonomy. However, once totalitarian structures were loosened, it only heightened the desire of Eastern European peoples for full
autonomy and freedom. This movement resulted in various revolutions, which all shared their countrys desire for freedom from oppression, but these revolutionary movements also differed drastically in the response of
individual governments reactions. The example of Poland demonstrates very well the shifting nature of the political atmosphere in the 1980s. In 1981, Moscow bristled in fury at the audacity
of Solidarity, the Polish trade union movement that supported reform, which Soviet officials called "A Trojan horse of imperialism" (Johnson 18). As Solidaritys protests rocked Poland, Soviet troops
massed threateningly on the common border between Poland and the USSR (Johnson 18). In reaction, Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed the trade union with martial law, which caused the Soviet news agency
TASS to comment approvingly that Polish authorities were "taking necessary measure to restore tranquility" (Johnson 18). Just eight years later, things were totally different. Solidaritys power was strong, while
the Polish Communist Party was rapidly losing its grip on power. Plagued by strikes, debt ridden, and repudiated by the majority of the Polish people in elections, the Communist regime
that had been in power in Poland for 40 years collapsed and Jaruzelski, who had smashed Solidarity in 1981, was formed to ask Solidarity leader Tadeusz Mazowiecski to form a
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