Why Didn Communism Work in Eastern Europe?
Communism failed in Eastern European countries for the same reason it routinely fails in others — there’s no money in it, at least not for the people who need it most. While the economic system known as communism may have worked well on paper, the political form of communism forced on Eastern European countries brought little more than oppression and hardship to the working class citizens it exploited. Many of the Eastern European governments were puppet regimes handpicked by Communist Party leaders working remotely from Russia. Communications between Russia and its Eastern European satellites were rarely two-way streets.
