Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk of "glasnost" and "perestroika," Gorbachev maintains the iron hand of authoritarian government. The communist regime still does not grant its own citizens freedom of speech, association or the press. Thousands of Soviet citizens continue to fill Russia's jails, mental hospitals and slave labor camps because of their political and religious beliefs...
...have "liberalizing reforms" or "restructuring" occurred in Eastern Europe, which still lies in the grasp of communist political and military domination. Moscow has not loosened its grip on its Eastern European satellites and continues to force their contributions to the Warsaw Pact's military buildup...
...scheduled to confer with congressional leaders and intellectuals and hold a televised news conference before he and his wife Raisa depart next Thursday. Gorbachev's image in the West as a humane reformer has been somewhat dimmed by the November sacking of one of his chief lieutenants, Moscow Communist Party Boss Boris Yeltsin, after a public disgrace reminiscent of the Stalin era. Since Yeltsin was an enthusiast for perestroika (restructuring of the Soviet economy), his peremptory dismissal has been interpreted as a signal that Old Guard bureaucrats are reining in the pace of Gorbachev's domestic reforms...
...said that because former Dean of the College of Communication Bernard S. Redmont opposed the project, two of the school's associate deans distributed among the communications faculty McCarthy-era newspaper clippings that identified him as a Communist. Redmont resigned as dean last year over the program...
Anna's tragedy is that she could conceivably return to communist Prague, recant her politics, and become a star again, rather than remain in America and demean herself by jumping at understudy roles in silly, pretentious Broadway shows. As she tells her former acting professor, a Czech who has sold out his politics to regain his status, "My problem is I love America too much." He answers, "But America doesn't love you, and it never will." She replies, "But it leaves me alone...