Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition groups and factions in 1921, the ensuing one-party dictatorship was "a very important condition for Stalin's usurpation of power." Addressing the readers he ultimately hopes to reach, the Soviet people, he warns that "if socialism is not combined with democracy, it can become a breeding ground for new crimes...
After the speeches, the coffins were reinterred in the Rakoskeresztur cemetery in the same plot from which they had been exhumed. A sixth coffin was lowered empty into the ground in symbolic memory of more than 200 other Hungarians who were executed in the terror that followed the uprising...
...tense early-morning hours of June 4, hope died and fear was born. Thousands of combat troops stormed Tiananmen Square, transforming the Woodstock-like encampment of young students calling for democracy into the bloodiest killing ground in Communist China's history. The images of defiance and devastation, the voices of determination and despair, shook the world. Here, protesters attacked troops with poles and rocks. There, a student lurched, his dazed face soaked with blood. Everywhere, the bodies fell, how many is still not known, while fires blazed, signaling the dawn of China's uncertain new world...
Some managed to surge past a force of Revolutionary Guards, clambering into the casket to plant kisses on the Imam's face. The corpse spilled to the ground, bare feet protruding from beneath the white shroud. As the Guards beat back the crowds, firing shots in the air and spraying fire hoses, other soldiers shoved the body and coffin back into the chopper. It lifted off with the casket hanging precariously out the door...
...told, the lacerating rough-and-tumble debate set important precedents for a nation learning the ground rules of democracy. "The major achievement," said Estonian Deputy Siim Kallas, "has been showing the people that Deputies can pose questions to the higher authorities." More important, of course, are the answers. A Moscow woman told the daily Moskovsky Komsomolets, "In other countries, if people express dissatisfaction with their government, it steps down. What about ours?" A Moscow worker offered an equally blunt assessment: "I like the way they are letting off steam, but we're not better fed because...