Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towering figures from the Soviet Union's past re-emerged last week in an apparent attempt by Soviet leaders to come to terms with some of the unmentionables in the country's history. The first was Nobel-Prizewinning Writer Boris Pasternak, the second V.M. Molotov, a long-time aide of Stalin...
...Molotov, 96, served as Foreign Minister during and after Stalin's regime but was ousted from power by Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. Molotov was interviewed by Moscow News, a weekly paper. The article skirted political issues, merely presenting a personality profile on the friendly great grandfather. The paper, however, said Molotov approved of the loosening of limitations on editorial freedom that has accompanied Gorbachev's recent "openness" campaign...
...dismantle the system for their own amusement. But one rarely hears a revolutionary cry these days to overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York Review of Books published on its cover a diagram, with instructions, of how to make a Molotov cocktail--to be hurled, obviously, in the direction of the ruling class. Thirty-one years ago, the columnist Murray Kempton wrote, "It is already very hard to remember that, only a generation ago, there were a number of Americans of significant character and talent, who believed that our society...
...police have become common. More than 400 people were injured in mid-May at the site of a nuclear-waste reprocessing plant being built near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf. Police used water cannons and dropped tear-gas grenades from helicopters to subdue protesters armed with slingshots, crowbars and Molotov cocktails...
...soccer field in the nominally independent Bophuthatswana homeland, north of Pretoria, where more than 5,000 people had gathered to protest the arrest and detention of local youths. Local police claimed that when they ordered the crowd to disperse, the demonstrators retaliated by pelting them with stones and Molotov cocktails. Panicky officers opened fire, and in the melee that followed, eleven protesters were killed, 100 wounded and as many as 2,000 arrested...