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…under Communist rule increased greatly, partly because revolutionary Communist movements gained strength in various parts of the Third World. (Beers 781, 805) In this manner the former isolation of the Soviet Union has been lifted, but the hostility between the Communist and the non-Communist world has to some extent, been complicated by deep antipathy within world communism. Rapid political changes in Easter Europe, the USSR and elsewhere between 1989 and 1991 dramatically reduced the number of Communist regimes. (Riskal)