Vaclav Havel at a November 1989 rally during demonstrations in Prague leading up to the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. Image: Mike Abrahams / Alamy Stock PhotoMore Responses
If the current regimes in places like Hungary and Poland do indeed represent the “Spirit of 1989,” this is only true in a very partial way.
As we remember the anti-totalitarian spirit of 1989, let us also recall that the spirit of Lenin is alive and well in China.
Chances are the ideological Lie will continue to haunt a modern adventure that has lost its true sense of purpose.
