Word: russia
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...modern state of Poland was born on Nov. 11, 1918, the day the country regained its liberty after 123 years of partition among Prussia, Russia and Austria. Until World War II the date was traditionally celebrated as Independence Day. After the war, however, the Communists ignored the anniversary, observing instead Nov. 7, the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. In recent years the government has interfered with attempts to commemorate...
...realistic disarmament is. I'm in Air Force ROTC and given the policies of the military and the way the military is oriented I don't see how total disarmament will happen anytime soon. There is a general belief that the stronger we are militarily, the more we deter Russia from stomping on us, and the better off we'll be. I think that is the position of the higher military leaders and of course Reagan and Alexander Haig. Those guys want more and more weapons and bigger and better ones. Therefore I don't think disarmament is a possibility...
Henry C. Park '84, the SASC spokesman, added that the rebels' speaking tour has "international significance" because the events in El Salvador are not isolated. "The United States and Russia are going at it across the world, like in Afghanistan. The same questions apply all over the world, and these men believe the oppressed of the world should unite in their struggle for freedom...
Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...
...Tsar, who ruled Russia for 23 years, also served as temporal leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. His killing thus has a special significance for a church that refuses to acknowledge the present Patriarch of Moscow because of his subservience to an atheistic regime responsible for the deaths of as many as 12 million Christians. The murder of the imperial family was "not merely an act of political reprisal," wrote Metropolitan Philaret, the church's New York City-based leader, in a special epistle on the canonization, "but an act principally of the spiritual annihilation of Russian Orthodoxy...