Word: fascistes
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...wisecrack that made the rounds in the 1980s characterized the Soviet Union as "Upper Volta with missiles." Now, as then, the economy is not that bad off. But Boris Yeltsin's Russia last week seemed closer to being a Weimar Republic with missiles. Images of violent communist-fascist mobs dedicated to strangling Russian democracy in its cradle no doubt helped galvanize international support for Yeltsin, a figure whose impulses are sometimes seen as suspect. The ambiguity of the crisis was reinforced by the televised spectacle of tank commanders loyal to Yeltsin shelling the Parliament Building...
...place people outside the debate is to hurl epithets at them, taking away the credibility they need in order to participate. Woods cited "fascist" and "racist" as examples of terms used in "reckless name-calling" by liberals...
...Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist...
Woods compares Harvard to the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, "where if you hold certain views you're wrong, out of the bounds of debate." Woods adds that the "reckless name-calling" of liberals, employing epithets like "fascist" and "racist", greatly damages political discussion...
...VIEWS ARE ECHOED BY VLADImir Ivanyushkin, a Moscow businessman. Says he: "If the Westerners keep giving us aid or credits, it's stupid. No matter what kind of government we have, communist, fascist or democratic, it's still going to be a Russian government, which means that all that aid will simply go down the drain, and nobody will ever find where it ends...