Word: bloodshedding
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The task for the West is to coax nations with die-hard leftist tyrannies into as much engagement as possible with the outside world. That will accelerate the inevitable transformation of their societies and perhaps even reduce the danger of bloodshed. The more external ties a country has when the...
Gorbachev was appalled at the bloodshed in the Baltics and devastated by the criticism that rained down on him at home and abroad. When he met with a group of international peace activists, instead of radiating his usual sense of command, he all but threw himself on the mercy of...
Inside OMON headquarters, Makutinovich's men go on preparing for a showdown. Some train in hand-to-hand combat and martial arts while others nap in cots, their black berets hanging from posts at their feet. They call each other by nicknames drawn from American action and horror movies: Rambo...
With the country in such deep disarray, the contours of one ghastly solution are already emerging on the battlefield: a redrawing of internal borders along ethnic lines, accompanied by population exchanges. In a sense, it is already happening. Some 40,000 ethnic Serbs have fled across Croatia's borders, mostly...
Neither those locked in conflict within the country's borders nor those watching from a distance could explain exactly what guided events last week as the showdown between the Yugoslav People's Army and the secessionist republics of Slovenia and Croatia first pushed toward all-out civil war, then pulled...