Word: leninists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dinh-Hoa Nguyen, director of the Center for Vietnamese Studies at Southern Illinois University, said Vietnamese culture has been completely replaced with Marxist-Leninist ideology by the current regime. Nguyen said that schoolbooks have been rewritten to promote communist ideology, including a fifth-grade history book that depicts "Americans as cannibalistic." It is the 500,000 Vietnamese refugees living in exile, he said, who are keeping the Vietnamese heritage alive...
Groups such as the Institute for Policy Studies and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee at Harvard explicitly link their calls for divestiture with support for the African National Congress. Today's rally at Harvard features the Director of International Relations of that Marxist-Leninist guerilla movement...
...central government in the American Civil War. Does that commit you to oppose the Paris Commune of 1870 or the Hungarian revolution of 1956? In Salvador, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Christian Democrat. In Nicaragua, the rebels want to overthrow the President, a Marxist-Leninist. To judge rebels by who they are and what they fight for, and against, is not a political morality of convenience. It is simple logic...
...confirmation emerged last week with the release of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's nominating speech to the Central Committee. The address seemed to Western analysts to have been aimed at blunting potential criticism that Gorbachev, 54, was too outspoken. Gromyko lauded the new leader for expressing himself with a "Leninist directness." Gromyko also stressed that Gorbachev had in effect been "brilliantly" running the country during Chernenko's illness...
...aware of the uproar that such a declaration would cause. The Administration would not seek to overthrow the Sandinistas, he explained, if they agreed to "say Uncle" and put in place a more pluralistic form of government that would include the contra rebels who have been fighting the Marxist-Leninist regime. "You can say we're trying to oust the Sandinistas by what we're saying," he noted opaquely, and returned to his oral bashing of the Nicaraguan regime. "I don't think the Sandinistas have a decent leg to stand on. What they have done is totalitarian...