Word: communist
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...Educated and from a well-off northern family, Tram volunteered for battlefield duty on the southern front at the tender age of 24, just after graduating from medical school. She spent three and a half years operating a clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once...
...truth may never be known. According to Samuel Yamashita, a professor at Pomona College in the U.S., details of the massacre and other atrocities were swept under the rug in postwar Japan, because the U.S. needed a strong Japanese nation on their side to counterbalance the growing threat of Communist China. "Execute a few heinous individuals and forget about everything else." That's how Joshua Fogel, a modern Asian studies historian at York University in the U.S., describes the American response to the massacre. "Just imagine if that had been the solution for postwar Germany rather than the Nuremberg Trials...
Shadings of difference have come to light between Medvedev and Putin. In 2003, Medvedev was less than gushing in his approval of the arrest of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This was when Putin's hunting down of the post-communist business "oligarchs" was in full spate. Medvedev has also frequently railed against corruption in Russian public life. He has made a point of saying repeatedly that the country badly needs to protect newly emerging small businesses. His career is apparently devoid of any postings in the Federal Security Service (FSB, the successor to the KGB), whereas several Kremlin leaders, including...
...says. “We’re kind of Children of the Corn-y”—Krahel and his roommate moved from Adams House into the Dudley Co-op to recapture that large-family vibe. The quirky atmosphere, with vegan cooking, Communist kitsch decorations, and naked study breaks suit Krahel just fine. “It’s like a really big family. It’s very back-home to me,” he says. “It’s nice to be around other crazy people...
...ideas and interest in how informal politics works and how regime type matters when it comes to democratization,” Gomez said. “He is one of the seminal contributors and pioneers in that field.”Soroka, who studies post-communist politics, added that he would have known of Levitsky as a scholar even if he had not worked with him in the context of Gov 20.“His work has had an impact beyond his regional focus,” Soroka said. “His work on institutions, especially, has influenced...