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...national integrity secured, the Shah turned to the task of modernization. His achievements???often accomplished by plainly dictatorial methods and at times torture and terror?were remarkable. When the Shah came to power, Iran's illiteracy rate was 95%; today it is 50%. In the 1940s the school population was about 275,000, and Iran had only one institute of higher education; this year a notably improved educational system will receive 10 million pupils, and there are now some 200 colleges and universities. As recently as 1960, only 2% of Iran's women had attended a university; today, women make...
...Fascism are negligible forces. More than 69 times larger than the Kingdom of Italy, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements???which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
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