Word: communisme
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...What is the crime this ragged bunch has committed? It is simply that they are Hmong, mostly the children, grandchildren or even great-grandchildren of fighters who in the 1960s sided with the U.S. to fight communism in Laos during the Vietnam War. Fabled for their resourcefulness and valor, many Hmong became members of a secret CIA-backed militia that helped rescue downed U.S. pilots and disrupted North Vietnamese supplies and troop movements along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through central Laos. The communist Pathet Lao movement?and its patrons in Hanoi?has never forgotten the Hmong's complicity with...
...always been a proud, warlike people. In the 1920s a Hmong rebellion against their French rulers erupted in much of Laos and northern Vietnam, ultimately failing but leaving thousands dead. When the French left Laos in 1953, the Hmong found themselves fighting again?this time against the threat of communism. Among the resisters was a young Hmong general named Vang Pao, who in 1961 was commissioned by the CIA to set up a secret army to fight the advancing communists. Over the next decade nearly half of the 40,000 Hmong fighters in Vang Pao's army are thought...
...possibly facing jail, the other lovelorn - to the stress of postcommunist life? Jaroslava Moserová doesn't think so. A senator and physician who treated Palach in the days before he died, she thinks she understands the strain these men were under. She compares the 1989 collapse of communism to tearing down a zoo and letting the predators loose. The past 14 years have been a chaotic, confusing time. But this response, she says, "is futile. During Palach's time there was no other way [to protest]. But now, if you give up your life, you give up a chance...
...have reduced us," says a staunch communist neighbor when he sees Alex searching through trash cans looking for empty containers. Becker describes the film as a "sad comedy," in contrast to other films about the East such as the 1999 hit Sonnenallee, a more slapstick look at life under communism. "Comedy always has a serious basis," Becker says. "The people we're all laughing at don't feel like laughing, while we in the audience have to laugh." Becker says he searched for four months to find an East German actor who could play Alex but failed. He then interviewed...
...Solomon points out, Wechsler’s experiences are both idiosyncratic and generational. Like many radical youths of the post-Depression era, Wechsler was drawn to the egalitarian ideals of socialism and communism. His book provides a glimpse into the little-known generation “nestled between the highly visible Depression and World War II radical generations and the new left boomers of the sixties...