's favourable opinion of the Soviet Union was an almost historical hangover, based on nostalgia and popular memory, rather than seeing the Eastern Bloc as a blueprint for a socialist revolution in Britain. But even this view of the Soviet Union acknowledged the severe shortcomings of the Soviet experiment. As would be expected, the language used in the Morning Star in its reporting on the events from 0000 to 0000 was much more moderate than what was expressed in Marxism Today or the Socialist Worker, but there were many positive stories about the people's uprisings in Eastern Europe and the moral and political bankruptcy of the collapsing regimes.  Within the pages of the Morning Star, Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost were celebrated as important reforms that allowed the people to achieve ‘democracy' in the former People's Democracies. A few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the paper reported that the ‘winds of perestroika have reached the GDR', but this ‘[did] not mean a crisis of Socialism,... because the majority of the GDR population is not going to abandon human Socialism.' Discussing the revolution in Romania, the editors of the paper claimed that it was ‘the essence of perestroika' that was ‘at the heart of the complex changes taking place throughout Eastern Europe.'