Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense of the ambitious economic and social reform policies that he has championed under the banner of perestroika, or restructuring. On topics ranging from party doctrine and Soviet history to cultural freedom and foreign policy, the General Secretary called for continued change while identifying his own innovations with the Communist ideals of Lenin. "We are striving," he declared, "to revive the Leninist look of the new system, to rid it . . . of everything that shackled society and prevented it from realizing the potential of socialism in full measure...
...speech seemed partly aimed at answering conservative grumblings that Gorbachev's reforms were taking the country down a non-Communist road. Though the party leader admitted that perestroika had caused confusion, he proclaimed, "We are not retreating one step from socialism ((and)) everything which has been won and created by the people" since the triumph of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917. Yet realizing Lenin's original vision, said Gorbachev, meant adapting to modern times and changed "international conditions...
...There was a need to have a medium of contact among workers to tell people in Russia that we are a majority of German people in favor of creating peace, but we do not agree with their political structure--we are not in favor of a communist dictatorship," Kluncker says...
Shultz and the Soviet Communist Party general secretary smiled broadly as they shook hands and sat down with their aides in opulent Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin...
Some of last week's most chilling testimony came from Ramon Milian Rodriguez, who described himself as the former chief financier for the drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...