'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. 