Sloane Powers
US LOST THE COLD WAR, WEAKENING STALINIST ROADBLOCK TO WORLD’S TOILERS
In 1990, as party delegates of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) met to discuss their groundbreaking resolution “U.S. Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War,” events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union rapidly overtook the deliberations. One after another, Stalinist regimes that had governed workers and farmers under bureaucratic dictatorship began to crumble. Berliners tore down the wall separating East and West. Warsaw Pact armies withdrew. Communist Party apparatuses lost their hold on power. Across Budapest, Prague, Bucharest, and Moscow, citizens confronted a moment of profound political upheaval.
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