Word: communisme
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...industrial societies only during wartime," notes Nicholas Eberstadt, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Writing in the National Interest, a foreign affairs quarterly, he warns that the crisis threatens to undermine the East's struggle to build free and stable societies: "Adjustment to life after communism is proving not just difficult but positively traumatic throughout the entire former Soviet bloc...
...reasons for the crisis are complex. One obvious cause is communism's long and repressive reign. "Health care is no different from any other realm of our life," says Mikhail Prudkin, a Moscow oncologist. "All these problems did not emerge just in these past five or 10 years. They have been piling up for more than 70 years." Industrial pollution, careless handling of radioactive materials, poor safety standards in the workplace have all contributed...
...attend the commemoration. In some of the most exquisite language of the day, he turned their adversity into glorious emancipation. "Germany and Italy, liberated by our victory, now stand among our closest allies and the staunchest defenders of freedom. Russia, decimated during the war and frozen afterward in communism and cold war, has been reborn in democracy...
...CRIME: I realized that the way out of communism might be tortuous and destructive, but I think no one could have predicted or imagined the exact forms of it. I have been asked more than once what concrete proposals I might have, but having just come back to my homeland, it is too early. But when one speaks of crime, there can be no two opinions: crime must be firmly suppressed, or the whole country really will fall into the hands of the mafia, and the government will become a shadow government...
...present system cannot be called democracy because it doesn't express the will of the people. It ignores the sufferings of the people, and the whole structure still reflects the form of a barely changed communism. In 1991 we weren't able to change the system in a revolutionary way, although at the time it would have been rather easy to do so. Of course, the current system will change, but it may do so once again quite painfully while we are looking for another system. History does not forgive us when we let slip a fatal, critical moment...