A very similar 200 000-strong refugee wave left Hungary in 1956 after their failed anti-communist revolution.

The President wants to fund an anti-Communist revolution in Latin America, but Congress doesn't agree.

Whatever future Soviet citizens now decide for themselves and at whatever price, the fact is that the anti-Communist revolution was victorious without great bloodshed.

Sometime soon after the anti-Communist revolution, a new mantra entered international life.

At the age of 21 she had to leave her country when the Hungarian anti-communist revolution was suppressed by the Soviet military.

Mr Havel is the only leader from the anti-communist revolutions of 1989 still in office.

She was working with Ludwell to foment an anti-communist revolution in China.

The anti-communist revolution, led by Boris Yeltsin, ended with the victory of democratic forces and the people.

Torgyan said that the government had betrayed the anti-communist revolution, and called for its resignation, while demonstrators also protested over high unemployment and inflation.

Romanians opted for the familiar rather than the unknown, the bloody anti-Communist revolution of last December notwithstanding.