Word: communisme
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...former Soviet Union, fourth in diamond production, smuggling is on the rise in part because of the breakdown of law and order that accompanied communism's collapse. For years it was an open secret that communist Party and KGB officials pilfered diamonds from mine operations in Yakutia. Now that the old communists have fallen on hard times, millions of dollars' worth of their ill-gotten diamonds appear to be making their way into Western salesrooms. According to Mikhail Gurtovoi, the head of a Russian government anticorruption unit, large batches of illegally acquired Russian diamonds are turning up in Belgium...
...Some people say Gorbachev did not want to get rid of communism, only to reform...
Fragmentation in the eastern part of Europe was largely inevitable and the product of three forces: the weight of history, the legacy of communism and the democratization process itself. Unlike Britain and France, which have secure identities and stable boundaries, the nation-states of Eastern Europe are the relatively recent product of empire -- Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman or Russian. They have had tragic histories of lost freedom, submerged identities and shifting boundaries. Add to this the legacy of communism, which in the former Soviet bloc acted as a refrigerator, freezing all political, social and cultural evolutions, leaving pre- and post-World...
What seems lacking in current politicians is not the skills of the operator but the goal toward which those skills should, all the while, be working. In a way, the long crusade against communism gave an easy goal for politicians to invoke and the electorate to pursue. But now that this is withdrawn, there is no sense of a great mission for the country. President Bush lacks a "vision thing." Governor Clinton is accused of saying what people want, not -- as Lincoln did -- to get them to do what they should want, but simply to please & as many as possible...
...CAPTIVE ABIMAEL GUZMAN WERE startling: an obese, bespectacled man obeying police orders to put on his shirt. Could this dumpy, bewildered fellow, last seen publicly in 1979, really be Shining Path's shining light? Here was the mysterious man who billed himself as the "Fourth Sword" of communism -- the successor to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Under the guerrilla alias "Presidente Gonzalo," Guzman fashioned himself into the demigod of a cultlike political movement. As far as his supporters were concerned, Guzman's mythic aura of brilliance, charisma and invincibility shielded him from comparisons with other mortals. Latin Americans may regard...