There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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