Word: expansionistic
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Driberg's Gandhi-like approach, that love will conquer all, is both appalling and dangerous. Sweet, lovable Daddikins Malenkov must be laughing himself silly to read that "the Soviet Union is far more self-sufficient [than Germany] and therefore not intrinsically expansionist . . ." How does our M.P. reconcile this view with the Russian occupation and economic exploitation of the Communist satellite nations...
...anti-Christian paganism; 2) hence, in practice, though there has been much cruelty in Russia, there is nothing comparable with the calculated horror of the gas chambers and the extermination of the Jews; 3) geographically and economically, the Soviet Union is far more self-sufficient and therefore not intrinsically expansionist...
...about anything as in its hatred of what Stalin stood for. But the U.S. was far from being either unanimous or precise on why or what it hated. To some, Stalin was a personal despot who had betrayed the cause of Socialism and progress. To others, he was another expansionist czar who disturbed the peace of the world with aggression. To others, he was the typical and inevitable product of the Marxist religion...
Totalitarian China under Mao Tse-tung is set on an expansionist course. This path runs counter to Russia's design for mastery and may precipitate war between the two, or insurrection, according to Benjamin I. Schwartz, assistant professor of Far Eastern History...
Recalling some of Mao's early military writing, Schwartz agreed that China's Red boss favors imperialism. "The temper of the present regime is expansionist in the long run," he said, although the Chinese would probably like a peaceful breather in which to consolidate their gains and industrialize...