Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he told the 1976 Party Congress that "detente does not in the slightest abolish the laws of class struggle," or Mr. Gronlyko when in June 1983 he hammered home to the Supreme Soviet the necessity to defend "our borders" of the entire Earanian empire, presumably against such imperialist agressors as Solidarity, the people of Afghanistan, or the unwitting agents of U.S. "special services" such as those aboard KAL, flight 007. The question is more Soviet priorities and capabilities. The Soviet Union suffers low internal morale and economic stagnation. The technology gap widens every year. Japan has passed the USSR...
...1980s the Soviet Union must save scarce resources; split Europe and China from the United States; manage counter in-surgency wars around the world (Afghanistan, Angola, Eritrea, Kampuchea, and (with minimal direct involvement) Nicaragua); and restore their credentials as "natural ally" of Third World causes by pinning the military-imperialist label on the United States...
...Alaska near some U.S. military installations. It is impossible to tell whether the plane is on a reconnaissance mission or simply off course. An American jet fighter pursues the Russian civilian plane for two hours and then shoots it down. The Soviets would immediately condemn the act as imperialist. Cold War brutality. Our allies would openly condemn the act, as would the rest of the world. The Russians would most probably take the opportunity to encourage Third World nations to avoid such barbarie capitalists and turn to the inherently peace-loving security of communism. Needless to say, the respect...
Scarcely a half-century had passed since the barbarians aboard Perry's black ships had humiliated the shoguns, and now Japan was a politely pugnacious power. The Meiji Restoration (the Emperor died in 1912) was a miracle of national self-regeneration, but the lessons imperfectly learned from the imperialist powers of the 19th century contained, or perhaps simply intensified, some dangerous poisons: a hunger for autocracy, a reliance on force, a fear of isolation from the world, and a rankling sense of grievance. The world would hear more of them. -By Otto Friedrich
...likely to rise as the search goes on, the assault already ranks as the bloodiest terrorist attack ever against a U.S. diplomatic mission. Ten minutes after the blast, an anonymous caller warned Agence France-Presse that the strike was "part of the Iranian revolution's campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world." The man identified himself as a member of the Islamic Jihad Organization, an obscure pro-Iranian group made up of Shi'ite Muslims loyal to Ayatullah Khomeini. Yet within a day, two other terrorist groups had also claimed responsibility. Though the attacker remains unknown, the motive...