Word: dictatorship
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...would not. Now that he has been deserted by the reformers, he must rely on the men in uniform if he wants to stay in power. One of his advisers, Georgi Shakhnazarov, warned that if Gorbachev gave in to separatists he would be overthrown and replaced by a military dictatorship...
...nobody has seemed to notice. The blaring front-page headlines that announced Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation have disappeared now that the Soviet foreign minister's dire predictions of imminent dictatorship have come true. Just as Kruschev's 1956 invasion of Hungary was overshadowed by the concurrent Suez crisis, the backlash in the Baltics has been buried on page nine, shunted to the background by Bush's moralistic pursuit of his New World Order...
Then, as now, all of Eastern Europe was in a state of nationalist turmoil. Only three years after the death of Joseph Stalin, Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was trying to reform the brutal dictatorship that Stalin created, but each attempt at change triggered new disturbances. Khrushchev stunned the Communist Party Congress that February by his secret speech acknowledging for the first time Stalin's myriad crimes. That speech strengthened anti-Soviet dissidents throughout Eastern Europe...
...chief of the State Committee for Television and Radio, has been systematically chipping away at the policy of openness. He suspended the popular music and information show Vzglyad (View) when it planned to broadcast a discussion of the resignation of Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who had charged that dictatorship was returning. Kravchenko also forced Interfax, an independent alternative to the official Soviet news agency TASS, out of his headquarters...
Though Gorbachev has proved wondrously skilled at skipping between right and left in the past, it is no longer certain that the architect of perestroika could turn back now if he wanted to. Each step on the road to coercion and dictatorship takes him farther from former allies who might offer him a way back to reform. He might still harbor a vision of a peaceful, democratized Soviet Union. But he has not been able to find either the determination or the right time to bestow true freedom of choice on his country and all its people...