  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.'