Word: anti-russian
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...Monday, wailing Azerbaijanis marched through the Caspian Sea port city of 1.8 million to mourn those killed when the Soviet troops moved in. Radio Moscow said antiarmy and anti-Russian sentiments were being whipped up by "irresponsible people" sending threatening unsigned letters and making anonymous phone calls...
...petty states and the individualism of nations." He thought the workers of Germany would side with Russia after the Revolution of 1917, even though the two countries were still at war. The successors of Lenin and then Stalin seemed surprised when frustration with the Communist system merged with anti-Russian sentiment to help trigger such traumatic events as the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Polish Solidarity movement...
Others take a less gloomy view of the Soviet leader's position. "Gorbachev should be encouraged that the Armenian demonstrations are not anti-Soviet or even anti-Russian," argues Columbia University Sovietologist Jonathan Sanders. "As a political actor he has shown a very astute response." Stephen Cohen, a professor of politics at Princeton, notes that "Gorbachev himself has seen something like this coming and has been ready for it." He adds, "Gorbachev has already explained that everything he is doing represents a diminishing state control and unleashing the unpredictable. Nobody can know what will happen...
...19th century playwright Stanislaw Wyspianski called long-suffering Poland "the Christ of nations" because of its capacity for anguish. Joseph Stalin is said to have remarked that bringing Communism to Poland was "like trying to saddle a cow." He did it anyway, but a nation of rebellious, romantic anti-Russian Catholics proved to be troublesome from the beginning. Most Poles never
...keep impressionable young recruits from fraternizing with the Poles, who were deemed liable to infect their visitors with "subversive" ideas even before the current outbreak of labor unrest. Second, to protect the Soviets from possible abuse at the hands of the Polish people, who have harbored deep-seated anti-Russian feelings ever since Catherine the Great absorbed a large part of their country in the eighteenth century. Acts of violent hostility against the Soviet soldiers are unheard of, but the resentment against them is occasionally expressed with furtive gestures and muttered insults...