ABSTRACT
In recent years, we have seen the massive popular rejection and the collapse of communism in the Second World. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, East and West Germany achieved a historic unification in October 1990. All the countries in Eastern Europe broke the shackles of the old ideology and strove for political dignity and ethnic solidarity. The Soviet Union and Gorbachev give us already a sort of nostalgic feeling, and strange new names, such as CIS and Yeltsin, now became ordinary words.
