Word: communism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Western countries cannot trust Russia and must never give it billions and billions of dollars. Why? Because Russia is so unreliable. We must not forget how Soviet power worked in our century. Soviet communism murdered 49 million people under a regime of terror, concentration camps and hunger. We Finns, especially, will never forget what an unmasked Russia is. ANTTI PEKOLA Pori, Finland...
...then arrested under the Suppression of Communism Amendment Act and sentenced to nine months in prison. The government lashed out, initiating a treason trial against its main opponents, which after five years in 1961 ended in acquittal of Mandela and the other 155 who were accused...
...back to the printing press and turn out rubles. That will bring back hyperinflation and pauperize the nation. The world will have to worry how even the docile Russians will accept such treatment, and what their political response will be. All indications are that Russians have tried communism and don't want to go back to it. But now they feel they have tried reform and have been rewarded with misery. What will they vote for next...
...only certainty under Chernomyrdin's coalition is that things will get worse before they get better. But after surviving seven grueling decades of communism and a Nazi invasion that killed 20 million people in only four years, it's not surprising that Russians greet news of financial collapse in Moscow not with panic, but with a resigned shrug...
...clearly what he was intending to do in this case. As Lincoln, in the quote ascribed to him, was expressing a determination to resist the spread of slavery, so J.F.K., in recording a quote someone must have handed him, was expressing a determination to resist the spread of communism. Neither the Lincoln quote nor the Kennedy quote can be construed (as some have suggested) as premonitions of their own deaths. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR. New York City...