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World Service,22 Aug 1988,28 mins

Communist Beliefs

Can Communism Cope?

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Examination of the beliefs and faiths that underpin communism. "What I really believed in, was that Marxism-Leninism was the only scientific theory that could explain the past, the present and the future. Everybody else just had opinions" says Wolfgang Leonhard, former senior official in East Germany.

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