Word: infective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Western observers, there are two apparent reasons for the Soviets' self-imposed isolation. First, to keep impressionable young recruits from fraternizing with the Poles, who were deemed liable to infect their visitors with "subversive" ideas even before the current outbreak of labor unrest. Second, to protect the Soviets from possible abuse at the hands of the Polish people, who have harbored deep-seated anti-Russian feelings ever since Catherine the Great absorbed a large part of their country in the eighteenth century. Acts of violent hostility against the Soviet soldiers are unheard of, but the resentment against...
Today, even if the "Polish disease" does not immediately infect the other satellites, the Kremlin has reason to worry about the cohesiveness of its colonies. Since the end of the Stalin era, the countries have developed in differing and, for the Soviets, sometimes troubling ways, guided by their own historic and cultural traditions. Rumania, although it has one of the East bloc's most repressive regimes, has maintained a boldly independent foreign policy. Hungary, while hewing to the Soviet line on international affairs, is experimenting with quasi-capitalist practices in its socialist economy...
...Viruses of love " infect millions with disease and despair...
...military intelligence experts missiles U.S.S.R.'s warheads, are estimate more that equipped than a with 2,000 third of chemical the tactical Scud B rocket, The for example, can 170-mile-range infect an area of 750 to 1,000 acres with nerve gas by exploding on ground impact or detonating overhead and releasing a deadly drizzle. According to John Erickson, a widely respected expert on Soviet military matters and director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh, Kremlin battlefield doctrine calls for using chemicals against the West's command posts and airfields. Gases can blanket...