Word: dictatorship
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...what is bad for Moscow is by no means automatically good for Washington. Like the other Eurocommunists, Santiago Carrillo, maverick though he may be, is ultimately as opposed to Western systems as he is to the Soviet dictatorship...
...that the long night of Franco's tyranny was indeed over. With joy and assurance they voted in Premier Adolfo Suárez, rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There are not many parallels," says Prager, "even though the political changes of the past 18 months might have gone deeper, and even though reform was not so much...
...vote registered by the U.C.D. was largely a tribute to Suárez's popularity. Backed by the King, he had steered Spain, with hardly a false move, from dictatorship to what should eventually become a full-fledged parliamentary democracy. Moreover, he had managed to do it in less than a year...
...entitled to certain skepticism about the sincerity of declarations of independence which coincide so precisely with electoral self-interest. One need not be a cynic to wonder at the decision of the French Communists, traditionally perhaps the most Stalinist party in Europe, to renounce the Soviet concept of dictatorship of the proletariat without a single dissenting vote among 1,700 delegates, as they did at their party congress in February 1976, when all previous party congresses had endorsed the same dictatorship of the proletariat by a similar unanimous vote of 1,700 to nothing...
...constitution contains a section defining Soviet foreign policy, which it says is in favor of peace and "broad international cooperation." The constitution also proclaims that a "fully developed socialist society has been built in the U.S.S.R.," the nation having graduated from the earlier "dictatorship of the proletariat...