Word: imperialist
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Annaud at first seems an odd choice for director. The variety of landscapes and eras in his Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear suggests he is less an auteur than an explorer. And one with an imperialist bent: he pumps this intimate memoir into a David Lean-size epic. But once Annaud locks his movie in the dark bedroom, he finds metaphors of gesture for convulsive passions; he creates cliff-hanging drama from each shift of the girl's whim...
...nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has a Russian majority. "Until we have independence, the Crimea will always be a vassal of Kiev," says Antonina Alekseyeva, a pro- Russian demonstrator in Simferopol. "All lies," retorts Nikolai Filipovich, an ethnic Ukrainian standing a few steps away...
...government implemented a sweeping agrarian reform which distributed all the land from the wealthy landlords to the poor peasants. Alan Garcia, president from 1985-90, served Peru under the banners of "anti-imperialism" and "social justice" nationalizing private banks and calling for "war on the business class the serves imperialist purposes." I think that these can hardly be called "governments of, for and by the rich white people...
Venezuela was apparently targeted because it had chaired the Security Council session that imposed the sanctions. Another object of mob ire was Russia's embassy. The former Soviet Union was once Libya's best friend and supplier in the "anti-imperialist" struggle...
...idea of Ukraine as a separate country, not least because 20% of the population there is Russian. This is an emotional issue with roots both deep and broad, by no means confined to crazies like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who calls his party Liberal Democratic but who is actually a fascistic imperialist. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's new book, Rebuilding Russia, appeals to Ukrainians not to go their own way: "Brothers! We have no need of this cruel partition. The very idea comes from the darkening of minds brought on by the communist years...