Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev, none more threatening than the release of long-festering resentments felt by various national and ethnic groups. The world's last polyglot empire now faces renewed demands from the Crimean Tatars about grievances that go back 45 years, nationalist demonstrations in Moldavia against Russification, secessionism along the Baltic coast and sectarian violence between Armenians and Azerbaijanis...
...could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy: cleaning up the Volga River, stopping the building of nuclear power...
...publish everything that we can vouch for, which is how it should be. That is how Ogonyok's stories on the crimes of Stalin and modern corruption originated. That is how we examine such things as the decline of the Bolshoi Ballet, the rise of nonparty organizations in the Baltic republics, the problems of the poor and attempts to use anti-Semitism to restore a dictatorship of fear...
...should like to point out that Poppe was a Baltic German, not a Russian, and very anti-Stalin. The statement that he helped the Nazis pinpoint Jewish centers in the parts of the USSR occupied by the Germans is odd since he did not even know where the "Jewish centers" were in his native city of Leningrad. He was not considered as an informant on Soviet affairs by various specialist on Mongolia and Mongolian. I have not read the book reported in the Crimson but it sounds somewhat sensational. Richard N. Frye Aga Khan Professor of Iranian
...Viktor Chebrikov, former head of the KGB, last month berated "antisocial elements" for attempting to "direct the masses toward anarchy." Pravda responded contrarily, suggesting that the ruling party might have to consider even "formal agreements" with independent groups. At the same time, the Kremlin has put down in the Baltic republics the kind of political muscle flexing it has tolerated farther south...