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The Soviet Union continued to react to the thaw between the U.S. and China in a muted fashion. Its press printed few articles; they criticized Peking for its "collusion with imperialism," and were less harsh to the U.S. Premier Aleksei Kosygin pointedly reminded Idaho
Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union also had a hand in trying to influence the elections. In the late '50s and early '60s, Moscow gave Indonesia an estimated $1 billion worth of military equipment only to see the army turn the weapons against the Communists in a...
What makes the film so attractive is its attempts-by director Mulligan, cinematographer Robert Surtees, and art director Al Brenner-to reestablish a visual landscape that reflects the lonely beauty of coming-of-age on the borrowed time of a world that is everywhere else embroiled in war. The film...
Even as repression has become more muted in the Soviet Union, social and economic forces are at work in the society to temper ideological fundamentalism. A fervent, unashamed patriotism is still evident, as is a certain loyalty to the ideal of Communism. Still, mass education, one of the system's...
Sometimes of course, the satisfaction is muted by the post-arrest process. And not just when the defendant is released the next morning, comes to trial five months later and beats the rap. I mean when the system works as planned and the man ends up in jail. The police...