Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punishment dished out to Francis Gary Powers for flying his U-2 thousands of miles into Soviet hinterland. In all probability, Makinen was a victim of the Berlin crisis. He came from West Berlin, just at the moment the Russians were charging that it was a center for imperialist plotters. Crowed Izvestia: "It becomes still clearer that the government of East Germany acted just in time in closing loopholes for all kinds of filth which tried to penetrate in our direction...
...struggling for independence or economic success; paragraph after paragraph assured the "poor, struggling peoples" of Russia's support and socialism's sympathy. But along with the promise of friendship went a warning. The nationalism of emergent nations, said Khrushchev, may be "historically justified" as a reaction against "imperialist " oppression," but "national narrow-mindedness does not disappear automatically with the establishment of the socialist system." Translation: The kind of nationalism that opposes the U.N. in Africa is quite all right with Russia, but beware the stubborn nationalism of Hungarian patriots who opposed the Soviets in Europe...
Aside from an automatic attack on the "brutish imperialist beasts" of the U.S. Senate, Castro displayed uncharacteristic restraint. He announced that Cuba would "soon" become a one-party state (which it is in practice), but added that "true socialism" could not be achieved for a few years. He said that he had no intention of halting the flood of exiles ("those worms and parasites") leaving the new socialism, but held out a carrot to what remains of Cuba's middle class by promising small businessmen that the change would be gradual, even voluntary. "A socialist society is not reached...
...broke off the talks, the F.L.N. has increased its prestige enormously and won new popularity among Algerian Moslems. Bourguiba, ambitious to lead a united Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...
...Death to the imperialist!" shouted Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem. "Return Kuwait to its homeland...