Word: russias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last four years of high school in white, middle-class America. If I had a choice between the two for my children, it would not be the latter. However, I confess to being excited about the moon landing. I would have felt the same had it been Russia or Red China. It's the first time in my life I've seen the possibility of a reprieve for mankind...
...they refrain from polemics against other Communist nations. Foreign guests were whisked about in gleaming black Mercedes-Benz limousines, which have replaced Soviet-made Chaikas as the official car. The fleet serves as a reminder that Ceauşescu has made West Germany his second-largest trading partner after Russia. Breaking with Communist tradition, Ceauşescu allowed newsmen, including one Mao-suited Chinese reporter, to sit in the gallery and witness the full proceedings. Delegates soon found...
...Russia succeeded in making two things clear in Bucharest. First, though the Kremlin originally reacted to news of Nixon's trip to Rumania with seeming equanimity, Soviet leaders are now thoroughly unhappy about it-probably because it was so successful. Second, the Brezhnev Doctrine has become a fundament of policy, which Russia expects both bloc members and the West to acknowledge, even to the point of clearing presidential visits...
...meet any Soviet officials or to offer them my hand, it will not be before the U.S.S.R. grants complete freedom to Czechoslovakia and withdraws its troops from there forever. I wish to apologize for the deception to which I had to resort in order to obtain permission to leave Russia. It was a deception forced on me. You have yourselves created the conditions in which it is impossible even to go abroad without trickery...
...Nazi Germany. Duke and I were in the latter group." A risky place to be; when Wayne praised Larry Parks for admitting his Old Left indiscretions, Hedda Hopper bawled out the Duke publicly. He got the message. "I think those blacklisted people should have been sent over to Russia," he now declares. "They'd have been taken care of over there, and if the Commies ever won over here, why hell, those guys would be the first ones they'd take care of ?after me." Still, even when he became president of the alliance, Wayne viewed politics...