Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rahva Haal, says the reforms give "more power to the Supreme Soviet than should be the case under a federal system." Agrees Lembit Koik, a leader of the quasi-official Popular Front of Estonia: "We want a Soviet Union that is really a union of republics, not indivisible Holy Russia...
...action in Doctor is set in Russia, as in Simon's Fools. But if it weren't for actor John Byrd's accent (in the role of Cherdyakov in the sketch "The Sneeze") or the fact that all the money is expressed in rubles, you might miss this detail...
Lenin was no more prescient. In 1916 he declared one of the goals of the Bolsheviks to be "the elimination of the fragmentation of humanity in petty states and the individualism of nations." He thought the workers of Germany would side with Russia after the Revolution of 1917, even though the two countries were still at war. The successors of Lenin and then Stalin seemed surprised when frustration with the Communist system merged with anti-Russian sentiment to help trigger such traumatic events as the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Polish Solidarity movement...
...race came, but it did not bring good fortune. The U.S. boat finished in sixth place behind East Germany, Romania, China, Russia and Bulgaria...
...have to use everything," he says, "inscriptions, coins, Greek scrolls, Chinese scrolls, anthropology, history, government, East Asia, the Middle East, Russia--you name it--you have to use anything...