How does a communist country have a middle class and make money?
Many left simply because they did not want to live in a communist country.
In 1986, about 80% of foreign trade was with other communist countries.
But as in the other former Communist countries, service is a problem.
Here, Council has all the power, like in a communist country.
And there weren't too many people who'd go out of their way to help someone from a communist country.
Among them they represented every major country, free and communist, in the world.
It served as a political and economic model for all of the other Communist countries.
All of the foreign films were from other communist countries.
The building was a symbol of a strong communist country.