Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painful circumstances surrounding our relations with the Bonn government. We are still doing our utmost to avoid further worsening in the current state of affairs." He also went out of his way to underline Egypt's "radical differences with Communist ideology. We believe in religion and refuse dictatorship by any class...
David M. Kotz '65, a former president of the Harvard's Students for Democratic Society, argued for negotiations to end the war. "As long as the United States supports a repressive dictatorship in South Vietnam, it is forcing majority sentiment to the Chinese side," he said...
...that the cold war is a battle "for the hearts and minds of men," a familiar idea, the essential truth of which has been long forgotten. If Chinese Communist idealogy is to be effectively contained, the United States should present a counter-example more appealing than the war and dictatorship that have been brought to South Vietnam. While a new Korea might be temporarily "successful" in South Vietnam, it would weaken American prestige in the rest of Asia, Africa, and even Latin America...
...Urge. What the reforms seek to do is liberate the Soviet economy from the stifling economic dictatorship that Stalin imposed on it as a mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...
Churchill outlived his own great era, but he had foreseen and often named the forces that were to shape subsequent history: the cold war, the Iron Curtain, Europe's drive for unity, disorder and dictatorship in many of the lands that had once been part of Empire. At the end, few who paid him tribute remembered how bitterly the old statesman had been reviled in his time. Denounced in turn as charlatan, braggart, turncoat and warmonger, he was many times defeated at the polls, swept from high office, made the scapegoat of others' failures. But if Churchill...