Word: communisme
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...dinner conversation with TIME editors, Castro says capitalism ``is a catastrophe for the world'' and denounces its effects on the environment. In Europe we know that communism did nothing to preserve our planet. But we also know that ecological neglect was forced on the people of Eastern Europe as long as the two systems were competing for world domination. When communism ceased to be its adversary, capitalism should have changed its system of values. Instead, as Castro says, it keeps on ``digging its own grave...
...citizens of the U.S. and of the citizens of the many countries which rely on the U.S. for support depend on the advanced technology of the U.S. It was thanks to superior technology that the U.S. saved the world from falling into the hands of Nazism and Communism. More recently, the Gulf War was won, with minimum loss of lives, through technological superiority...
...professor and politician went on to outline some of the accomplishments of Russia since the collapse of communism less than four years...
...bass, lamb, and ice cream for dessert. Castro, who spoke in Spanish, talked ``nonstop, pausing only to eat and drink,'' according to Booth. He joked that he held an ``Olympic record'' in assassination plots against him, and chided Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev for being apologetic about communism. ``He appeared to be very well informed,'' says Attinger. ``He did not strike me as someone who was isolated...
...discuss any topic, no matter how controversial. But despite Castro's openness as a dinner host, there remained something deeply intractable about the man. ``At his core, there was no flinching from what he had always believed, in terms of the virtues of the revolution and the virtues of communism,'' says Gaines. ``However much you might disagree with that, there's something admirable about his consistency...