Talk:Eastern Bloc politics

East German "Police" organizations
What is the basis for calling the border troops or the Kampfgruppen "state or secret police orgnizations"? Why are Trapo and Volkspolizei listed separately? Yaan (talk) 18:56, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Yugoslavia
This article should not include Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia is mentioned as a part of so-called "Eastern Bloc", but then there is not a thing mentioned of its politics, which clearly shows Yugoslavia was not part of Eastern Bloc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.111.58 (talk) 13:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Purges and show trials - Hungary, Kádár and "Vladimir"
It is very likely, that this story about how Kádár was tortured is a myth created after 1956 by Kádár and his close allies. "Vladimir" in the text is Vladimir Farkas. He was the estranged son of the defense minister, Mihály Farkas and member of the AVH from 1945 (he fought in the Soviet army in the ww2). He participated in the investigations, but he wasn't charged with the torturing part, that was the task of such "specialist" as Jozsef Kajli, Gyula Princz etc.

After 1956 Kadar used Mihaly and Vladimir Farkas as scapegoats (father and son as the leaders of the attrocities).

This way the communist party (MSZMP):

a.) could spare the other AVH officers, like Kajli etc. who got lucrative jobs usually in the culture (publishing firms etc.) (also usually their role in the "attrocities" remained a secret until 1990, because their victims either emigrated in 1956, were afraid to talk or were dead),

b.) could increase Kadar's popularity in Hungary ("see, our leader was a victim, too..."),

c.) could distance itself from the pre-1956 communist party (MDP) (dictatorship vs. rule of socialist law and democracy)

Vladimir Farkas wrote a lenghty memoir about the AVH and his role, sadly it's unavailable in English, but here is a link about a series of interviews with him in 1989, it's a good start as he remained faithful to this version until his death: http://osaarchivum.org/files/holdings/300/8/3/text/120-2-124.shtml

- Vortalwombat

Nowa Days
I'm thinking that we should have a page of Eastern Bloc politics today's such as eastern Europe/ former communist states these days are now known to have nationalist/ far right party's then the west. so should this page be that page. Leftwinguy92 (talk) 12:07, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Reworking the article
This entire article needs to be reworked. It reads much more like a piece of cold-war propaganda then it does a fair assessment of the political systems of the eastern bloc. Modern historians don't even accept the categorization of Stalin's USSR as "Totalitarian", theres absolutely no excuse for labeling these countries as such. The article relies on quite a few outdated, incorrect or heavily biased sources to paint a picture of the eastern bloc that in light of the actual political situation reveals itself to be hopelessly incorrect. For example, the only section to even touch on any of the real democratic institutions that existed in the eastern bloc (and they did exist) is titled "Vestiges of "bourgeois democracy", and starts with the phrase ''"Vestigial democratic institutions were never entirely destroyed, resulting in facade of Western-style institutions. Parliaments rubber-stamped decisions made by ruling parties"''. If wikipedia is really to be a neutral institution we need to stop compromising facts to suit the political narrative of the author. I would highly suggest doing some reading on the topic of political rights and instutions, especially on the local level and reworking this article accordingly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91and71 (talk • contribs) 16:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Agree, the text is extremely biased! TheUzbek (talk) 15:09, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

== After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, Pahlavi aligned Iran with the Western Bloc and cultivated a close relationship with the United States to consolidate his power as an authoritarian ruler. Relying heavily on American support amidst the Cold War, he remained the Shah of Iran for 26 years after the coup, effectively keeping the country from swaying towards the influence of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union.[6][7] Beginning in 1963, Pahlavi implemented a number of reforms aimed at modernizing Iranian society, in ==

After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, Pahlavi aligned Iran with the Western Bloc and cultivated a close relationship with the United States to consolidate his power as an authoritarian ruler. Relying heavily on American support amidst the Cold War, he remained the Shah of Iran for 26 years after the coup, effectively keeping the country from swaying towards the influence of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Union.[6][7] Beginning in 1963, Pahlavi implemented a number of reforms aimed at modernizing Iranian society, in 37.131.111.160 (talk) 07:02, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Tobacco Protest (1891) ulama)
Tobacco Protest (1891) At the end of the 19th century, the Shi'a clergy (ulama) had a significant influence on Iranian society. The clergy first showed itself to be a powerful political force in opposition to the monarchy with the 1891 Tobacco Protest. On 20 March 1890, the long-standing Iranian monarch Nasir al-Din Shah granted a concession to British Major G. F. Talbot for a full monopoly over the production, sale, and export of tobacco for 50 years.[48] At the time, the Persian tobacco industry employed over 200,000 people, so the concession represented a major blow to Persian farmers and 37.131.111.160 (talk) 07:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC)