Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official banners that failed to brighten this sad city included two words: glasnost and demokratizatsiya. For the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda, those two words stand for genuine political virtues the leadership has introduced into the life of the citizenry. Yet in private conversation they often resonate with disappointment and foreboding, as though they were euphemisms for the messiness of current events and some vague chaos still to come...