Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chernenko shared the spotlight with Ustinov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at Andropov's funeral. Later, in the fall, Ustinov faded out of the picture. Soviet television viewers had fully expected to see him pass through Red Square to review the massed battalions on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in November, but he never appeared. According to the official medical bulletin last week, Ustinov had contracted pneumonia in October. Emergency surgery had to be performed to correct an aneurysm in the aortic valve. His liver and kidneys later malfunctioned, and he suffered a cardiac arrest last Thursday evening...
Though Kremlin leaders no doubt welcomed the return of the dictator's daughter as a propaganda victory, there would be no dancing in Red Square. Since her 1967 defection, Svetlana had frequently denounced the Soviet regime in books and interviews. She called the Bolshevik revolution a tragedy for Russia and characterized Stalin as "a moral and spiritual monster." Repudiating her Soviet citizenship, she ritually burned her passport...
Reagan: (laughs) Served those Bolshevik Ho Chi Minh backers right. But listen Fritz, I've got to get back to the Republican hullabaloo...
...over again. They see the overthrow of capitalism, the ripping away of their markets, their profits, an end to the despotic rule of the landlords, bosses, military, and the specter of workers and peasants taking power--as was done in 1917 in Russia under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party. Despite the bureaucratic degeneration led by Stalin, the economic gains of the Russian Revolution remain and must be defended against imperialist counter-revolution...
...particularly appropriate that you're in the Soviet Union as I write now. You're right about Colby College. They banned fraternities officially just a while ago. Bob Ruzzo DU put it best: "History has repeated itself once again, as a Bolshevik minority has succeeded in confiscating the property of the 'haves' in order to re-distribute it and achieve an equality of mediocrity under which all will suffer. As with other revolutions, repression of familial ties [as represented by fraternities and sororities] is a key ingredient of success "What a coincidence, Muffy, is it that there is no freedom...