1.   Five years ago, thousands of women across Eastern Europe took to the streets to help topple communism in hopes of a better life.

2.   Many historians believe that John Paul played a key role in toppling communism through the moral and material support he provided the anti-communist movement in his native Poland.

3.   Only a child during the events that toppled communism, Vieru marched on the streets of the capital waving a revolutionary flag.

4.   Politicians linked to the Solidarity movement that toppled communism have started a campaign to rename central Constitution Square for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

5.   A year later, the Solidarity trade union formed and eventually led the movement to topple communism.

6.   After communism was toppled, Hungary pulled out.

7.   Both parties grew out of Solidarity, the labor union that became a broad political movement and toppled communism a decade ago.

8.   He stressed that Poland has made strong advances on human rights in the nine years since toppling communism.

9.   Kwasniewski, a former communist, noted Gdansk was where the war began, but also where the Solidarity movement that toppled communism in Poland was founded.

10.   The Freedom Union, also rooted in the Solidarity trade union movement that helped topple communism, was created on liberal economic principals.