Word: communisms
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...openly maintained alliances in, and sent arms to, every corner of the world, from Cuba to Syria to Madagascar to Vietnam. The United States and the Soviet Union were constantly at odds in every sphere of influence. One power tried to propound democracy while the other strove to spread Communism. The Soviets also had their own orbit of similarly modelled republics--an effective buffer to the West...
During the cold war, you may have violently disagreed about exactly where and how the U.S. should resist communism, but you shared the rough consensus that resistance and involvement were necessary. The Soviets had nukes, they and their allies fought our influence everywhere, and you worried about the prospect of a lot of countries going communist. Maybe you thought it wouldn't matter here and there, but if it happened in too many places, there would go ! the global neighborhood; we would end up with a world in which the U.S. could hardly feel safe, could hardly be itself...
...believe that this kind of danger is really gone? Nuclear arsenals, while mercifully shrinking, are still around, many of them in the hands of unstable regimes that are potentially more dangerous than the relatively predictable old Soviet Union. Communism as such may have expired, but it threatens to be replaced by nationalist, aggressive totalitarianism; if that became widespread, the world would be nearly as unhealthful for America as it would have been if communist regimes had proliferated...
President Boris Yeltsin wiped one of the last vestiges of communism from Russia's lawbooks with a decree allowing the purchase, sale, lease and exchange of land under terms that would be the freest in 70 years...
...PARLIAMENT: Not the real thing. Unlike the nascent democracies of Eastern Europe, Russia has not held a parliamentary (or presidential) election since the fall of communism. Result: the parliament is dominated by unreconstructed communists who were elected three years ago to represent a Russia that was still part of the Soviet Union, a country that no longer exists...