Despite all the problems of the central and eastern European Communist states, their governments would not have been overthrown without:

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Gorbachev's policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) signaled a shift in Soviet Union's approach towards its satellite states in central and eastern Europe. His assurance that the Soviet Union would not use military force to suppress political movements in these countries (the "Sinatra Doctrine") was crucial in enabling the peaceful revolutions that led to the overthrow of Communist governments in 1989.

Despite All the Problems of the Central and Eastern European