Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Vietnam did not fit into the paradigm of good and evil contributed to the U.S. failure there, he said...
...Gorbomania. Some members of the new team seem to relish the chance to sound tougher than their predecessors. A number of Bush aides have privately derided Ronald Reagan for his arm-in-arm stroll through Red Square with Gorbachev at their summit meeting last June and for proclaiming the Evil Empire a thing of the past...
...openly sympathetic to the ugliest manifestation of Soviet neoconservatism. Founded in 1979 as a cultural and historical group attached to the Ministry of Aviation Industry, Pamyat (memory) has grown into a violence-tinged social movement that blends ardent nationalism with virulent anti-Semitism. To Pamyat's conspiracy theorists, an evil alliance of Zionists and Freemasons is responsible for most of the world's woes; Jews who were at the heart of the Bolshevik Revolution are blamed for the failures of Communism...
...through the kind of thing that Arts and Sciences did way back then [in the 1960s] because of a group in there that feel that law is something that the powers-that-be use not for justice's sake but for their own advantage and that law itself is evil. They're real out-and-out Marxists, these people...
...better set of institutions a truly better way of life. The war blocked all those things from being born, so we opposed. In our opposition, we thought ourselves wiser than those who taught us and warmer than those who had nurtured us to maturity. We thought ourselves clean of evil and therefore we acted in an uncompromising manner...