Word: communisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kremlin has been concerned that the Reagan Administration may be bent not just on containing the U.S.S.R. but on defeating and destroying the Soviet system. Soviet officials say their leaders have been dismayed by four themes in Administration policy: repeated declarations by Reagan and his aides that Soviet Communism is destined to end up on the ash heap of history, combined with a presidential call for a crusade against Communism; the Administration's military buildup; official statements and leaked documents suggesting that the Administration is seriously preparing for the possibility of nuclear war; reports of stepped-up covert action...
...withheld diplomatic recognition from the Bolsheviks throughout the 1920s. Part of the reason was a hope in Washington that by turning its back on these upstarts in Moscow, the West could make them change their revolutionary ways. Soviet Communism was an epidemic to be quarantined...
...attributes the young people's dissatisfaction to the Cultural Revolution. Children growing up at this time were told that everything Mao did was right and later that he had made mistakes, she continues. Because Mao was wrong, some of them think that communism is wrong and that everything in the West is good, she says, "so many of them would like to come over to America...
What the USIA is planning is not a mere documentary, or a symbolic show of support for Solidarity, but a program to be aired internationally, in a sort of cold war battle over the airwaves--the kind of show that portrays the evils of communism and the righteous causes of the good old USA. While the voices of campus groups ought never to be silenced or censored. Giamatti is right not to drag the name of a diverse liberal university into that particular realm of international politics...
They're impressed and even awed by what they see in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the other non-Communist countries of Asia as compared to their own situation. They know that what China needs is a true Great Leap Forward and that Communism won't get them there...