Journal 73 – A new chance for Central and Eastern European courtiers

In my journal 68 I have written that Europe is going to its new days. It is true. A few years after the Bolsheviks revolution (1917), the Soviet Union was established (1922). Lenin died in 1924. After Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin took power in the Soviet Union. He was a cruel dictaror, who ruled Russia for almost 3 decades until his death in 1953. Stalin’s successors were: Chruschev, Brezniew, Chernienko and Andropov. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev took power and after him was Boris Yeltsen. Only they both were leaders of the new generation.
Russia, as a communist country, existed from 1917 to 1991. Boris Yeltsen resolved this empire. It is true that the Soviet Union kept the hard arm many Central and Eastern European countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, DDR and Albania.
Only in 1990s, Communism collapsed as a result general offensive. This process began from Poland. Europe, this Old Continent, took a new breath. Mentioned above countries and the former Soviet republics began to build their new future. One of these countries is Poland. This transition period isn’t easy, but Poles believe in the better future and they don’t give up. It is great that after a few decades, Eastern and Central Europe joined to democratic Western civilization.