The "ex-communist" nations seem now to understand this.    From Wordnik.com.  [[taking the piss] there must be a reason] Reference

During the early 1990s, the ex-communist Mongolian People's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

But criminals from the ex-communist world are heading west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Mafia] Reference

Furthermore, with an authoritarian ex-communist regime in power and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Germany gained poor residents when it absorbed the ex-communist East in 1990.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Trend in Germany:] Reference

I agree the EU is great for ex-communist countries and all of Europe, but NOT Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

I rather believe that the ex-communist countries would look today more like North Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran: A Threat Ignored] Reference

In Europe, ten nations will join the European Union, many of them ex-communist countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2004] Reference

New governments in the ex-communist states are too weak to combat the heavily armed mafias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death On The Spot] Reference

I'm not happy for having been born in an ex-communist country, but that doesn't change the facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's no Debatin' these Socialist Calculations!!] Reference

We have been ignoring your ex-communist sister, Wimsey, as you know, but she is still in the record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presumption of Death]

You don't need to know that Reid is an ex-communist to spot that he hasn't actually ruled himself out at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enforcer] Reference

Twenty years ago, the ex-communist countries enthusiastically embraced market capitalism and liberal democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern European Currencies Need Help Now] Reference

Frankly, my family had more trouble with my wife being a ex-communist party member than the fact she was Chinese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up] Reference

Some countries, led by the ex-communist Czech Republic, want to add human-rights conditions to ending the sanctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [EU Ponders Abolishing] Reference

But for the new rounds of EU expansion into the ex-communist East, the old countries have put up barriers to movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference

Totalitarian Marxism is dead (though old communists have come back to power in a number of "" ex-communist '' countries).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Plunging Into A Cold Peace'] Reference

NATO officials will hold frequent meetings with the ex-communist states and there will be an annual NACC ministerial meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth Of A Now Nato] Reference

Poland, like several other ex-communist bloc countries that joined the EU in recent years, is committed to adopting the euro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks Reel On Eastern Europe's] Reference

I've seen the transformation of that country from an impoverished ex-communist country to one of the most thriving and booming places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Future of Canada] Reference

But the democratic commitment of NATO's first ex-communist entrants — Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic — was never in doubt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stop Baiting the Bear] Reference

They are the real money, so they should be able to muster far greater resources (ex-communist assassins, quality security, …). — gp.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Four - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

But I have a very vivid imagination influenced also by the tragic ex-communist and state interventionist experience of the Czech Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Strangulation?] Reference

In Poland, poll projections from Sunday's general election showed the ex-communist opposition heading toward a narrow parliamentary majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001] Reference

It abstained because the junior partner in its governing coalition, the ex-communist Party of Democratic Socialism, opposed the constitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inevitable really] Reference

Some of the EU's new ex-communist members also look overextended, raising the possibility of financial crises and a sharp drop in growth there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euro Zone's Exports Propped Up] Reference

Reform was held back by the ex-communist MPRP opposition and by the political instability brought about through four successive governments under the DC.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

There's always something creepy about an ex-communist talking about the necessity of curtailing civil liberties and giving the security forces more powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

And another ex-communist country Russia, will face its own presidential election and questions about its one-party politics and the future of its democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2004] Reference

Germany gained poor residents when it absorbed the ex-communist East in 1990, but poverty is rising fast in the country's more economically developed West too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welfare Changes Jolt German Society] Reference

An ex-communist in New York who became disillusioned with the Party in the 1940s, Ben soon learns that being a communist was easier than being an ex-communist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winterkill: Summary and book reviews of Winterkill by Karen Wunderman.] Reference

From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, the once fast-growing ex-communist economies have been hammered by collapsing demand and vanishing foreign-investment flows.    From Wordnik.com.  [EBRD Increases Plans to Support Emerging Nations] Reference

From the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, the once fast-growing, ex-communist economies lately have been hammered by collapsing demand and vanishing foreign investment flows.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Bulgaria Struggles, Socialists Face Threat] Reference

As late as March 5, when I interviewed a senior official from the Obama administration, the United States professed its allegiance to Georgia and other ex-communist allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Shuster: Obama's Betrayal of Georgia Kind of Makes Sense] Reference

Greece have sparked irritation among the EU's ex-communist states, amid jitters that the entry rules for the single.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to MoneyWeek Roundup: What's about to hit the housing market] Reference