Word: euroshima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INFERNO LIKE DRESDEN MUST NEVER BE REPEATED! proclaimed one banner, its white letters imprinted on a scarlet background. EUROPE WANTS NO EUROSHIMA! exclaimed another; SOCIALISM, PEACE, FREEDOM, declared a third. In the streets, toddlers waved tiny red flags with the hammer and sickle, and huge portraits of Marx, Lenin and Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko bobbed above a crowd of some 150,000 gathered at the Theaterplatz. From a platform emblazoned with the dove of peace, East German Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker faced the blackened ruins of the city's cathedral and, without a trace of irony, intoned: "Today Dresden...
...failed to convince a majority of the West European electorate that the Cruise and Pershing 2 missiles are part of an American effort either to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union and or to limit a nuclear war to Europe the peace movement's vision of "Euroshima" flies in the face of the logic of the NATO decision: to visibly and tangibly reinforce "extended deterrence," that is, the coupling of the defense of Western Europe to the American nuclear arsenal in the face of a growing military threat which does not directly affect the territory of the United...
...distortions begin with the almost exclusive analytic attention given to the possibility of nuclear war in Europe. a typical "Euroshima" doomsday scenario starts with the Soviet Union attacking West Germany. But in reality, the likely site of superpower confrontation is not Europe but somewhere in what has come to be known as the third World...
...Western Europe have woven so patiently for 30 years. The signs vilify: "We are not America's Guinea Pigs," "Today's Children are Tomorrow's Dead," "Reagan: Your Bomb will not be our Tomb." The chants taunt: "We don't want to fight Reagan's War," "No Euroshima...
...France, the Communist daily L'Humanité took the opportunity to attack Reagan and to attract attention to the peace march held in Paris last Sunday. Beneath a front-page photograph of Reagan before a mushroom cloud, the paper ran the giant headline: NO EUROSHIMA! But the government of President François Mitterrand supported its American ally...
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