European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 03, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                East bloc in revolt a soldiers of the romanian revolution occupy the offices where the feared Nicolae Ceausescu ruled the country for 24 years. Big kid on the bloc ignited flurry of tumultuous change w ii  Skavis staff writer Hen the i Mfd suit s since is. Europe come Down with llu1 Grippe goes a West German thirty four years of Iron Rule in Bulgaria by Todor Zsivkov collapsed in the face of protests by up to 50,000 people in the capital City of Sofia. January. 1990 in a new twist the soviet Plant wrinkled its bpm and sent its satellites into convulsions. With stunning swiftness governments Hac fallen. Border barricades have Bruni lilo and free expression blossomed. The paei1 of change boggles the mind. It s the Etui Lgeorge Orwell s animal i Arm when the animals discover that some animals were More equal than others and worst of All. He pigs were eating other animals. Hungary led the Way. Pulling Down us part of the Iron Urbain and severing the communist stranglehold an outlawed Lahore Union displaced communist Rule in Poland. The Iron ruler of fast Germany suddenly became a criminal and his successor systematically stripped of authority in a Public flogging of sons. I once in a Echo Slovakia clubbed till ens in the streets unwittingly triggering a Public Awakening thai dwarfed the Prague Spring of left. In a heartbeat. Alexander Duheck forlorn architect of that doomed Renaissance a generation ago. Again became an idol. I he country s real leadership passed into the hands of a playwright a Man Fresn irom prison. The f  parts in . Of All places. Jettisoned its longtime ruler and embraced Reform vet it is a Fine line Between peaceful rebirth Andana chs and the world watched and held us breath the tears hurried to reality in Romania. Where a the cannot he run solely on ideology Ifil is to has e a semblance of humanity. In saw that Many of the people in the sos Iet Buffer states of the Warsaw pad worried More about the Standard of living and free speech than a nato threat that the  line of t out Sion among the soviet republics is a to Mph. As he began to lift the heavy hand of oppression within his country and loosen the tether on the Butler mates Embr Sonu cells of democracy began to flourish i he be flunking As the soviets also Call perestroika Anil  Means sweeping changes in inc econom am Itie painful obligation of facing the i nines of soviet state. The invasion of Afghanistan Llu shoring i puppet regimes in Poland Echo Slovakia and last ice Nany were called  member of the Sci let politburo told the stars and stripes. I Here will never be any such thing again i Intini j on Jav of Page 3