Word: communisms
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...show. As the film begins to roll and Santa smiles for the camera, the theater becomes a TV screen, or vice-versa. What follows is an extremely nutty, comedic and exuberantly memorable scene involving Santa and a lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy, who together are preparing to do battle with Communism in America...
...have never sacrificed nor suffered, and thus we may have never truly learned. If we had actually marched for civil rights, how would we feel about affirmative action? If our friends had died in the hills of North Korea, would we be so critical of those who feared communism? If we had given something of ourselves for this country, would a politician's patriotic loyalties mean so little...
...Janos Kadar retired in 1988 (by then, the Party had changed its name to "Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party"), things changed: A government functionary announced that "new research in the archives" showed 1956 had been a popular uprising, not a counterrevolution. In June 1989, months before the official end of communism in Eastern Europe, Imre Nagy was given a state funeral in Budapest...
...come from a working-class family. Before 1989, my parents and I could count on several weeks' vacation each year. These days, there are no vacations for any of us." She didn't hesitate for long when I asked her whether she regretted the "old regime" (in this case, communism). "I hate to say it, but yes," she answered. Hers is not the majority view, but neither is it totally aberrant...
...teaches us about freedom of speech," Klemencic said, "something we never had under communism...