Word: communisme
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...belligerent jaw who has seized on generations of ethnic hatreds and resentments to turn what was Yugoslavia into a slaughterhouse. There are, as Milosevic rightly insists, "no innocent sides" in the civil war, nor is he the only unsavory populist who has emerged from more than four decades of communism. But he is far and away the most destructive. More than any other single person, Milosevic is responsible for the bloodshed by his unyielding determination to see all Serbs united in one country carved from territory the communists left -- fairly or unfairly -- to other republics. He is the power behind...
...highly incendiary factor is Albania itself. A decade ago, at the time of the last serious uprising in Kosovo, Albania was a Stalinist dictatorship. Whatever their grievances against Belgrade, few Yugoslav Albanians believed they would fare better under Tirana. But now that Albania is beginning to emerge from communism to join the modern world, it will inevitably serve as a stronger magnet for the loyalties of Albanians in Serbia and a stimulus to their militancy...
Gorbachev would not be drawn into an admission that socialist theory had failed or that communism was dead. An alternative between capitalism and socialism is in the offing, he said. The use of force for political ends is being discredited. The 20th century has little to teach the 21st, and new thinking is needed...
Moreover, many experts predict that a collapse of the Uruguay Round would shove the world economy into a protectionist spiral, leading to serious political frictions between the U.S. and its major trading partners reminiscent of the Great Depression. "With the collapse of communism," says a White House official, "we're finding that our relations with countries around the world are focused more on economics and that the irritation points are economic too." If these irritations accumulate, huge regional trading blocs under construction in Europe and the Americas could be joined by one in Asia, all of them bristling with trade...
TRADITIONALLY, THE MAY DAY PORTRAITS STARING blankly across Moscow's Red Square were those of the founders of communism -- Marx, Engels and Lenin--and * the current crop of Politburo heavies. Banners bore slogans like GLORY TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION and GLORY TO LABOR. Sic transit glory. This year Moscow has not only dumped the trappings of socialism but hopes to replace them with outright commercialism...