Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...
...Soviet press has insistently argued that Moscow was obliged to send troops to rescue Afghanistan from "internal subversion" by American intelligence agents and "threats of major aggressive operations" by the U.S., Britain and China. Washington's offer of military aid to Pakistan provided fresh justification for the conquest of Kabul. The aid package, TASS claimed, was merely a U.S. ploy to provide the Afghan insurgents with arms, thus turning Afghanistan into a base against the U.S.S.R...
...many Americans, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was only the latest in a long, and seemingly unbroken, string of Moscow-sponsored Communist takeovers. Between 1944 and 1948, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all fell under Soviet control, either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French...
...subcontinent's largest country. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini's chaotic regime now had a Soviet threat on its eastern border as it struggled to cope with rebel autonomists and internal squabbles over what to do with the American hostages. In Egypt, Moscow's audacious conquest of Afghanistan cast a darkening shadow over a summit between President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. In New York City, one Third World country after another rose in the United Nations General Assembly to excoriate the Soviet Union (see following stones...
...international outrage sparked by the Afghanistan conquest was the most severe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Seeking to capitalize on the shock and dismay, the U.S. promoted a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops. The vote was 13 to 2 in favor, but the Soviet Union promptly, and predictably, exercised its veto...