Decommunization

war of independence fought from 1991 to 1995

series of protests during 1989 overthrowing communist governments in Eastern Europe

1989 popular uprising in Romania against the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu

events leading up to the end of Soviet rule in the Baltic nations

process of decommunization in Ukraine

thumb|One of the manifestations of decommunization has been Street name controversy|renaming streets. Before 2017, ulica Anny German in [[Poznań (Anna German Street) was named in honor of Julian Leński.]]

thumb|Lustration map of Europe, with green representing some form of lustration; pink no lustration; and grey not a former Warsaw Pact member Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their history as a witting confidential collaborator (informant) of relevant former communist secret police, an activity widely condemned by the public opinion of those states as morally corrupt due to its essential role in suppressing political opposition and enabling persecution of dissidents. Surfacin

Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives and prosecution powers

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event, starting in December 1990 with student protests; political pluralism was allowed on 11 December; the Labor Party won the 1991 elections (in a coalition with non-communists), but lost the 1992 elections amid economic collapse and social unrest

Ongoing protests against the Cuban government

Mongolian protests for democracy and subsequent transition from communism to democracy

Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies. In 1989–1992, communist party governance collapsed in most communist party-governed states. After severe hardships communist parties retained control in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. SFR Yugoslavia began to disintegrate, which plunged the country into a long complex series of wa

peaceful transition to a democracy in Hungary in late 1989

museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

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legal regulations sanctioning communist crimes in Poland

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National referendum on Russian President election method

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limited process of the removal of communist symbols

government process regulating the participation of former communist officials after the fall of the Poland Communist state

Reprivatization refers to the process of restoring properties seized or otherwise nationalized from privately held owners by a government to privately held status. This may include returning seized property or compensating uncompensated former owners, or reprivatizing state held enterprises to new owners, especially banks, which were privately founded but came under state control due to economic crisis or other factors. The latter scenario is sometimes referred to as privatization, though scholars have specifically referred to the sale of nationalized Mexican and Korean banks to private shareh

Czech police subdivision which investigated criminal acts from 1948 to 1989 which were unsolvable for political reasons during the Czechoslovak communist regime

The '''''' was a protest on 5 August 1994, in which thousands of Cubans took to the streets around the Malecón in Havana to demand freedom and express frustration with the government. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Cuba fell into a crippling economic crisis that had many citizens looking to flee the island. On the day of the protest, the Cuban police blocked people from boarding tugboats leaving Havana, prompting thousands of citizens to storm the streets in the largest anti-government demonstration Cuba had seen since the Cuban Revolution. In the following week

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Protests against the Cuban government