Word: communisme
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...nature of the conflict is also dissimilar. In Vietnam, we unwittingly fought not against communism, but rather Vietnamese nationalism. Ho Chi Minh succeeded not as an exponent of class struggle, but of national struggle: Vietnamese saw him as the leader who would free them from the colonial subjugation that had started with the Chinese, continued with the French, and would end with the Americans...
...young, handsome, aggressive, with the aura of a playboy, indefatigable, and his speeches are interspersed with jokes and vulgarities. He does not know uncertainty. His ideas are utterly simplistic: it was President Carter who surrendered Nicaragua to the Sandinistas. Carter also prepared to turn over El Salvador to Communism, but "we stopped the conspiracy in its tracks." At the time, the major was an intelligence officer, and he claims he quit so he could "denounce the Communist plot." According to his adversaries, when he left the army he took with him the intelligence archives. Many people whom he accused...
...major flatly rejects any negotiations with the guerrillas "because the Communists will not accept any agreement other than surrender." His idea of Communism is pervasive: it includes the liberals, the Social Democrats and, above all, El Salvador's Christian Democrats and their leader, José Napoleón Duarte. "That loco Duarte and his party are the political arm of subversion. Christian Democrats and the guerrillas represent two different tactics of Communism. The first one to get into power will call the other, and together they will give the country to the U.S.S.R." When I tell him that...
Beneath the satire, Aksyonov seems to be making a point in The Island similar to the one made by Fellow Exile Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 Harvard speech: materialism is softening up the West for the triumph of Communism. By contrast, there are no hidden homilies in Aksyonov's multilevel, 230,000-word novel, The Burn, which Random House will publish later this year. A denser, darker work than The Island, The Burn reflects the author's searing experience as the child of victims of Stalin's great purges. It also powerfully evokes another subject proscribed...
Hart correctly identifies that enemy south of the border as "hunger, poverty, and disease--not Communism." Why not propose a new Marshall Plan, but this time for South and Central America? We helped Western Europe after World War II not out of charity, but because we knew that a strong and independent Europe was essential to our economy and our security. So to with the Americas: help them develop into self-sufficient trading partners and allies, not industrial colonies...