 The reaction to a similar proposal seven months later was much the same.As they conceded more and more of the rights over which the Communists had established their monopoly in the 1920s, events and organisations not initiated or overseen by the regime were frowned on and discouraged by the supposedly liberal authorities of the brief and ambivalent period of perestroika and official glasnost.In the remaining two and a half years the rate of change accelerated.