21.   A wave of nostalgia for the era of Communist rule is speading across eastern Germany.

22.   A willingness to switch sides helped the general survive the collapse of Communist rule.

23.   Add the bitterness between those who felt oppressed by Soviet-imposed communist rule and those who chose collaboration, and a row one day was inevitable.

24.   After decades of communist rule, paying taxes is an exotic notion for many.

25.   After they were driven from power by a Vietnamese invasion, the Khmer Rouge regrouped as a jungle insurgency, continuing to enforce Communist rule in areas they controlled.

26.   But a few hundred miles to the east, in Gorlitz, crumbling facades testify to decades of Communist rule.

27.   But after three governments in the four years since communist rule collapsed, Popal is not sure who controls that hoard.

28.   But air pollution here, as elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, has declined since the end of communist rule.

29.   But although the exhibits detail the atrocities of Communist rule, it is also clear that Malinauskas has a soft spot for the Communist-era sculptures.

30.   But hopes for peace after the tumultuous years of communist rule evaporated.