Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imperial capitalist countries and a base for later revolutions. Gradually, the struggle to maintain a socialist state in a hostile world came to dominate much of Soviet policy. After Stalin ascended to the chairmanship of the Soviet Communist Party, he moved forcefully to obliterate the contradiction between an anti-imperialist socialist state's principles and the Soviet commitment to Russian interests. While still paying lip-service to anti-imperialist sentiments, he became head of a sprawling empire...
...government which rose from the ashes of the old Tsarist empire, whose first leader was an anti-imperialist theoretician, and whose ostensible goal was the liberation of the whole world, come in the year 1968 to be a symbol of ruthless repression and flagrant imperialism...
When Lenin and the other Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, rather unexpectedly, in 1917, they renounced the imperialism which had marked the Tsarist regime. Viewing the war then raging as an imperialist conflict, they also renounced the preceding Provisional Government's participation in the war, a decision which cost them dearly when the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's role in World War I. Lenin was a committed Marxist and he viewed backward Russia initially as only the first stepping stone in a march to world socialism which he expected would emerge quickly in the advanced countries...
...Moslems' claims to self-determination took a backseat of the goal of strengthening the country's unity. After the Moslem areas were occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War, as many as a million Moslems were transported to settlements in Siberia as the Soviets adopted the ultimate imperialist weapon, genocide...
...reforms have been tried in other Eastern European states without Soviet intervention. But, the Czechs showed a dangerous tendency to want to run their own affairs--without regard for Soviet wishes. The Soviets paid a high price for the subsequent brutal repression. They stood exposed before the world as imperialist aggressors. But they paid the price gladly to keep their valuable empire intact. Jan Palach could not forget. The Czech people cannot forget. Those who oppose imperialism should not forget...