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| Hungary discards the system of single-party dictatorship (1989) | |
Copyright Masaru HASHIMOTO
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| SINGLE-PARTY DICTATORSHIP The collapse of socialist countries proceeded rapidly. In Hungary, where 33 years earlier tanks had crushed attempts at reform, single-party dictatorship, which was an essential part of the communist system, was discarded. | |