Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, the dissident movement is turning from an embarrassment into a potentially serious problem. It exists not only in the Soviet Union but all over Eastern Europe, where it is not simply a protest against Communist totalitarian practices but a nationalistic protest against Soviet colonial rule...
...most of the present leaders are the very men who survived Stalin. World opinion is what keeps us going, what keeps us alive." Mass terror was ended after Stalin's death, but no one doubts that if the dissident movement were ever to become a serious threat to Communist rule, the Kremlin would crack down with full force...
...libertarians in the U.S.S.R. and other Communist countries were taking Helsinki seriously-or acting as if they were. According to a tale that has been repeated with local variations in virtually every Communist country in Europe, a grandmother goes to the police station in Pinsk and requests permission to visit her sister in The Bronx. The policeman just shakes his head. The old lady then pulls out of her string shopping bag the tattered pages from Pravda reproducing the text of the Helsinki agreement. "It says here, young man, on page 3, section A-Contacts and Regular Meetings...
determined effrontery. On a larger scale, would-be reformers in the Soviet Union and East Europe have used the Communist governments' ratification of Helsinki as a lever to press for liberalization on many fronts, such as censorship and immigration-with scant success. The Kremlin and the other East bloc regimes have no intention of permitting the free flow of ideas and people that Helsinki calls...
...East Germany. Once the most obedient of peoples in the Soviet bloc, the East Germans have begun to manifest discontent with life in the most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...