Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such patriots, the greatest threat to the motherland comes from "radical liberals" who are plotting to seize power. The nationalists point fingers at members of the reformist Interregional Group of parliamentary Deputies, such as Moscow populist Boris Yeltsin and historian Yuri Afanasyev, and at staunch glasnost editors like Yegor Yakovlev of the weekly Moscow News. But Enemy No. 1 remains Politburo liberal Alexander Yakovlev. They have never forgiven him for a 1972 article that blasted writers who glorified Russia's peasant past -- a risky political act that earned Yakovlev exile as Ambassador to Canada until he returned to Moscow...
...HAVE BROUGHT THE MOTHERLAND TO AN AWFUL STATE, TURNING IT FROM AN EMPIRE ADMIRED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO A STATE WITH AN INGLORIOUS PRESENT AND INDEFINITE FUTURE...