Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author when he says that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution has paradoxically become more of an empire than it was under the Czars. From the early '20s, after it became obvious that the world revolution expected by Lenin and other leading Bolsheviks was not to be, the Communists had to readjust their thinking. The survival of the Soviet Union was then seen as the essential element needed to preserve the revolution until the time would again be right for the world revolution. The more appealing the Soviet Union is, the better chance there is for foreign embracement...
...main opposition. PASOK overtook George Mavros' middle-of-the-road Democratic Center Union, which fell to 12% of the vote and won only 15 seats. On the far right, the new National Rally Party won 7% and five seats; on the far left, Greece's two Communist parties-one Moscow-lining, the other Eurocommunist in outlook and running jointly with other splinter groups-garnered 12% and 13 seats...
...made his final trip to Moscow, where he was snubbed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and was refused the heavy weapons he sought. Barre then visited Saudi Arabia, whose leaders had been trying to woo him away from Moscow for at least three years as part of their anti-Communist strategy to reinforce moderate regimes along the Red Sea and on the Horn of Africa. Barre came away from Jeddah with a reported promise of $300 million; in return, he presumably promised the Saudis that he would get rid of the Russians in his own good time...
Publicly, both parties are still trying to play down their differences. One Communist alderman says the Socialists are merely seeking to impress voters with their independence prior to the legislative elections next March. But the message coming across to voters is more fundamental. "It's a joke," says Centrist Jean-Louis Schneiter. "They have proved that Socialists and Communists cannot work together." The next act will probably be played out when Lamblin and Colin compete for leftist votes in the elections to the National Assembly. Whether or not Marchais and Mitterrand have been able to paper over their differences...
DIED. Kurt von Schuschnigg, 79, Austria's autocratic Chancellor before annexation by Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria...