The government confiscated all the agricultural products. There were restrictions to the life of the citizens in almost everyway. The freedom of politic, social, culture, and economic were controlled. Communism, in another word, was totalitarianism. However, Communism is not all that powerful like it seems to be.
First of all, the Soviet or the Eastern bloc people never support Communism. The fact that the communist regime in Eastern Europe faced constant opposition had proven this statement. Violence revolutions, form by the Anti-Communists, often occurred. East Germany, Poland, and Hungary were three major examples. Between the years of 1953 - 1956, these three countries had set up violence revolution in the purpose to gain independent from the hands of the Soviet Communism. In 1953, there was an uprising in East Germany (Uprising in East Germany, 1953). According to analyze and reports from the CIA and SED, the uprising originally started in Berlin, and then spread throughout in East Germany. This had concerned Stalin because the USSR realized if the West and the East Germany united, the influences of the Communist in the East Germany would lose control. At last he sought solution in military force. Eventually, this led to the building of Berlin Wall in 1961. The intention of this was to stop the flood of refugees who fled to West Germany to seek for freedom from the Communist government. (The Berlin Wall (1961-1990)). This illustrated the weak point of the communist rule in East Germany. The removed of the Berlin Wall in 1990 symbolized the end of the Communist rule in the land. In 1953, Stalin died and he was success by Khrushchev. Under the led of Khrushchev, with his idea of de-Stalinization, another uprising occurred in Poland 1956. (Poland, 1956: Khrushchev, Gomulka, and the "Polish October" ) Unlike Stalin, Khrushchev was a little bit gentler in dealing with the revolts. We could see this in his approached in the Polish Revolution Crisis.