{"id":26338,"date":"2025-09-27T06:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26338"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:04:47","slug":"26338","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26338","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[W]hile Eastern Europe was acquired by the Soviets as a buffer zone, in the long term it proved to be a gate. lt did not shield the USSR from Western influences; it ushered them into the tent.<\/p>\n<p>In matters of economic and social reform, the satellites led, and the Soviet Union followed\u2014albeit usually with a delay, and only after an intervening period of repression and retrenchment. Hungary, following 1956, became an example of a socialist economy that could deliver a relatively high standard of living. Czechoslovakia, during the brief flowering of the Prague Spring, showed that socialist leadership could conceivably coexist with a free press and a multiparty system. Polish Solidarity, although anti-Communist, paradoxically showed what a <em>real<\/em> worker-led social movement looked like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Jacob Mikanowski, <em>Goodbye Eastern Europe<\/em>, (<span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Great Britain<\/span>: <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Oneworld Publications Ltd<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2023), 287-288<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[W]hile Eastern Europe was acquired by the Soviets as a buffer zone, in the long term it proved to be a gate. lt did not shield the USSR from Western influences; it ushered them into the tent. In matters of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26338\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}