"Workers of the world, forgive us," declared the sign of one man who protested that Communism had failed here and elsewhere for the last seven decades.

These symbols are more valuable to a confused state than the more utilitarian needs that Communism preached about but failed so dismally to provide.

Communism has failed because it hasn't been able to solve the real problems of those countries in terms of democracy, economic freedom, social structure, consumer satisfaction.

It provided the contrast showing how badly Communism failed.

But by the end of the 1980's Hungary had decided that enough was enough; Communism had failed; it was time to lower the curtain.

She spoke with conviction about her belief that one day Soviet Communism would fail and Latvia would again be free.

Li Honglin, a prominent social scientist, declared flatly that Communism has failed.

Communism, both as a religion and as a political theory, had failed when its pie in the sky hadn't materialized.

He explained that before then, as Communism was failing, $40 bought enough zlotys for a family in Poland to live reasonably for a month.

Today, in the wake of the cold war, it is not enough for us to say that Communism has failed.