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Presents a socialist perspective on the 1980s disbanding of communism in the USSR & Eastern Europe. It is asserted that a capitalist economic system was imposed by the liberal governments of Eastern Europe, their representative bodies were dissolved, fundamental rights & securities curtailed, & protesters repressed. Discrimination was practiced against those who did not support the new measures & against certain minority groups. Also, as a result of market liberalization, there was a dramatic increase in unemployment, poverty, income inequality, & overall human suffering. It is concluded that the West's positive portrayal of the collapse of socialism ignores the massive upheavals, oppression, inequality, & suffering that the transition to capitalism has caused in the former communist bloc. M. Nichols-Wagner