Word: lenin
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Russia's SS-18 missiles seemed scarier when they were pointed at Washington and Wichita, Kans. Like so much else in the onetime land of Lenin, however, the big guns have gone Big Business. Last week the U.S.-based ONE STOP SATELLITE SOLUTIONS (O.S.S.S.) announced that it had signed an agreement with the Russia-based KOSMOTRAS to use decommissioned SS-18s as launchers for commercial satellites...
Coming back from a quick trip to Asia late last month, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT'S plane made a normal refueling stop--in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The city has historical significance: it's where locals executed the last Russian Czar on orders from Lenin in 1918. Little did Albright know the locals are still pretty rigorous about following directions...
...Ulam served as director of Harvard's Russian Research Center from 1973 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1992. A prolific writer, his works included The Bolsheviks and Stalin: The Man and His Era, considered by academics to be among the most important profiles of Lenin and Stalin, respectively...
...motherlode of Communist literature, neatly sorted on shelves into categories like international, environmental and even feminist theory greets the visitor. The walls of the store are adorned with portraits of Lenin, Marx, Mao and a few pictures of China’s 1949 revolution. Plus, if reading isn’t your thing, there are buttons and T-shirts...
Bright green posters announced a "Rally for Relevance" and included slogans such as "Communism deserves a second chance," "You'll receive an Order of Lenin for this," "From Russia with love" and "Join us for an afternoon of collective economic misunderstanding...