Word: leninism
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...qualified. Although literacy was expanded to areas of the country where education had been lacking, the overall quality of education under Castro suffered due to its emphasis on indoctrination. A student is not given the opportunity to explore varied educational interests. Students are taught Marx, but not Smith; Lenin, but not Locke; Guevara, but not Jefferson. Education in Cuba is merely another instrument for the government to intrude into everyday life, manage opinions, and disarm the intellectual from opposing the government...
...Live, learn and work as the Great Vladimir Lenin ordained," was a basic brainwashing slogan of the Soviet era. "Live, love and have sex as the Great Vladimir Putin does," is the parallel message of an off-the-wall Russian movie that hits DVD shops on St. Valentine Day. A Kiss - Off the Record is a big, sloppy, and cloying smooch to the Russian President - and to Russians enthralled by his uplifting image of the motherland. "It's a film on family values - and we want families to watch it at home together," the film's producer Anatoli Voropayev told...
...cash - one third of a month's salary. Their dinner table is loaded with such tasty holiday treats as lotus root, fresh shrimp and carp, and the hall is festively bedecked with red and gold banners. But Zang's sunburnt skin and his Mao suit and Lenin hat look slightly out of place in this smart Guangzhou hotel with its marble-lined lobby. And despite the generosity of his employer, he confesses, he'd rather be elsewhere - eating a traditional reunion feast with his family in Shanghe county, then maybe watching the New Year's Eve gala broadcast on China...
...government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan's orderly society felt to a boy whose formative years were shaped by the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution. "Coming to Japan was like going to the moon," he says. "At Kobe University, the professors asked my opinions about Marx and Lenin. I had no idea that I was allowed to have an opinion on them...
...remember thinking that the Soviet Union had done something really stupid, but it was a sign of that classic Soviet aggression machine, the same way that they'd taken over Hungary in 1956 and gone into Czechoslovakia in 1968--that it was those robots that showed up on Lenin's Tomb every May Day. And I thought, They have made a mistake equal to anything wrong America has done. I remember thinking that it could turn into their Vietnam...