Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the Finnish border, the train jolted to a stop. I stood up, looked out the window and saw a swarm of uniformed custom officers surrounded and climb onto the train. This had happened upon entrance into Russia but still the experience remains numbing...
Through the streets of Tehran they streamed, the wounded and the widowed, old men and young in the blood-red headbands of the suicide squads, a quarter of a million in all. "Death to America! Death to Israel! Death to France! Death to Russia!" they chanted in unison as Ahmed Khomeini, 35, son of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for Islamic unity. Thunderous roars of approval arose as young victims of the war passed by on parade, swathed in bandages or seated in wheelchairs. Around them on every side, portraits of a glowering Khomeini stared down to discourage unholy thoughts...
Solzhenitsyn, meanwhile, rarely strays from the 50-acre estate in rural Vermont that he bought eight years ago because it reminded him of his beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier...
...exploited people nor unemployment nor poverty. A country in which formerly three-fourths of the population could not read or write, the Soviet Union has become a land of 100% literacy, and three-quarters of its working people have a secondary or higher education. In place of backward Imperial Russia, a new country has emerged that has the world's largest number of book readers and theatergoers and the largest number of engineers, scientists and doctors. And every Soviet citizen is confident that tomorrow he will live even better than he lives today...
...Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, represents a new breed of better-educated Soviet technocrat. The son of peasants from the rich farming region of Stavropol in southwest Russia, Gorbachev holds a law degree from Moscow State University and another degree in agronomy from the Stavropol Agricultural Institute. His knowledge of farming, the weak link in Soviet economic planning, won him a place in the Secretariat and catapulted him into the Politburo's inner circle at the tender age of 49. Continuing failures on the farm have cut short the careers of past agricultural experts, but Gorbachev appears to be flourishing even though...