Between 3 January and 14 May 1990 during the Round table talks an agreement was reached on the transition to democracy. An interim Brent Scowcroft and other members of the US administration were initially concerned that the proposed Malta Summit would be "premature", and that it would generate high expectations but result in little more than Soviet grandstanding. China's rapid growth has led some people to predict a "Chinese Century". At first the security forces obeyed Ceauşescu's orders to shoot protesters. Its main purpose was to provide the two Speaking at a joint news conference, the Soviet leader announced: the world which provides, paradoxically, the best justification for resorting to nonviolent methods. In a number of countries the Communist party simply changed its name and continued to function.In several European countries, however, endorsing or attempting to justify crimes committed by Nazi or Communist regimes will be punishable by up to 3 years of imprisonment.Enterprises in Socialist countries had little or no interest in producing what customers wanted because of prevailing shortages of goods and services.There was a temporary fall of output in official economy and increase in unofficial economy.In 2004 Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner and President In a 2007 paper Oleh Havrylyshyn categorized the speed of reforms in the Soviet Bloc:It was concluded that gradual reformers suffered more social pain, not less. In an attempt to halt the rapid changes to the system, a group of Soviet hard-liners represented by Vice-President Over the next three months, one republic after another declared independence, mostly out of fear of another coup. By the end of 1989, revolts had spread from one capital to another, ousting the regimes imposed on Central, South-East and Eastern Europe after World War II. In the "Anti Bourgeois Liberalization Campaign", Hu would be further denounced. The East European revolutions of 1989 offer a host of possibilities for enquiry. The chronology below gives the details of these historic elections; the date is the first day of voting as several elections were spilt over several days for run-off contests: The Singing Revolution is a commonly used name for events between 1987 and 1991 that led to the restoration of the independence of Soon after the launching of the August coup, Estonia and Latvia declared full independence.
Many of the countries involved had monarchic governments and aristocratic social structures with an established nobility. The Communist Party renamed itself as the Returning from Iran, Ceauşescu ordered a mass rally in his support outside Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest on 21 December. Between the spring of 1989 and the spring of 1991 every Communist or former communist Eastern European country, and in the case of the USSR and Yugoslavia every constituent republic, held competitive parliamentary elections for the first time in many decades. In contrast to the peaceful nature of the velvet revolutions of central and Eastern Europe of 1989, events that led to the break-up of the communist state of Yugoslavia were the most violent seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War. By the time the coup was foiled, the USSR was no longer unified enough to mount a forceful resistance, and it recognized the independence of the Baltic states on 6 September. The SED, renamed the The Kremlin's willingness to abandon such a strategically vital ally marked a dramatic shift by the Soviet superpower and a fundamental paradigm change in international relations, which until 1989 had been dominated by the East-West divide running through Berlin itself.