Elsewhere the main view was that these countries would "little by little" abandon Communism.

Barnet told the subcommitee he had abandoned Communism in 1942.

For the first time in a Communist country, a ruling party has formally abandoned Communism.

"I can not stand to abandon communism! "

At a guess, I would imagine that they saw what was happening to the Soviet Union and decided to abandon communism.

But they added that if visa requirements are canceled as a reward for abandoning Communism, there will be no way of controlling illegal migration.

It has largely abandoned Communism, but it has not fully embraced capitalism.

This isn't what we abandoned communism for.

The state remained in existence until 1989 when opposition forces consolidated in forcing the régime to abandon communism.

It was the fourth multiparty election since 1990, when the Soviet-backed Government abandoned Communism.