Word: communists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Would the West have put ground troops in Bosnia if Russia was still a communist state?" Major asked. "The answer is, we would...
...Kremlin coffers? It's easy ? just dust off the missile silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance. And extortion may have actually been the objective of North Korea...
BORN April 22, 1870 1903 Forms Marxist Bolshevik Party 1917 Leads the revolution, heads new Soviet government 1918 Bolshevik Party changes name to Communist Party Died...
Back in the Cold War, Washington relied on ideological rivalry between the communist leaderships in Moscow and Beijing to keep its enemies divided. But in these days of post-ideological, yet increasingly chilly, peace, Russia and China are linking arms against the U.S. Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin held talks Wednesday at a regional summit in the border nation of Kyrgyzstan, and both emphasized the need to build a common front against the U.S. Jiang warned of a "new display of hegemony relying on force (that) has already drawn concern on the international scene," while Yeltsin complained that "some...
Memo to Boris Yeltsin: If you dodecide to move Lenin's body from Red Square, you may want to convert his mausoleum into a McDonald's rather than try to knock it down. As Russia debates what to do with the bones of its first communist leader, his Bulgarian counterpart on Saturday got the last laugh on the country?s post-communist authorities. Georgi Dimitrov?s body was cremated shortly after the collapse of communism in 1990, but following a fierce national debate, the present government decided to finish the job by destroying his mausoleum in downtown Sofia. So with...