Word: hitlered
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...1950s I had already read Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Also historical accounts about Hitler; why he was never overthrown. I must say I was always against the system. We called it "contra" then. My parents were as well. My father is a bit red. But my mother made sure we were instructed as Catholics. There was always internal resistance. We thought the system could not last long, that we had to accept it as a result of the war, of Hitler's despotism and the cruelty of that regime. Yet we were always afraid of being denounced...
...epicenter of the Soviet secessionist quake is in the Baltic states, which enjoyed 20 years of independence before being re-annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 under a cynical deal between Stalin and Hitler. As a result, says Sajudis president Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania "is not seeking to establish independence, but working to restore it." Visiting the republic in January, Gorbachev tried to apply the brakes with an offer to create a new Soviet federation with increased autonomy for all republics. While every republic had a constitutional right to leave the Union, he said, a law on secession procedures first...
During the last month, Silber has characterized Massachusetts as a "welfare magnet" for minorities, charged Jews with racism, compared the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's speaking style to that of Adolf Hitler's and suggested that alcoholism is a less serious problem than drug addiction...
...east lies the Soviet republic of Moldavia, which Stalin created in 1940, when he annexed Bessarabia in a deal with Hitler. During the years when Ceausescu kept his people hungry and cold to sell food and fuel abroad, there was little reason for the 2 million Rumanians on the Soviet side of the border to long for home. Now, with democratic elections scheduled for April, some Moldavians have called for reunification with Rumania. Meanwhile, Rumania's newly recreated National Peasant Party has called for the return of the lost territory. To deflect just such demands, Moscow promised it would open...
Some 3 million of Germany's expellees were uprooted from the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia seized by Hitler in 1938. The power of those old passions was demonstrated when Vaclav Havel, shortly before he was elected President of Czechoslovakia, observed that in a spirit of reconciliation the country might offer an apology to the ethnic Germans who were forced out of their Sudetenland homes after the war. Communist hard-liners in Czechoslovakia spotted the mischief potential in that comment and made sure everyone knew what Havel had said. Sure enough, outraged demonstrators marched in Prague demanding that no apology...