Word: russophobia
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...radiophobia: ... radiation, X rays ranidaphobia: ... frogs rhabdophobia: ... punishment rhypophobia: ... defecation rhytiphobia: ... getting wrinkles rupophobia: ... dirt Russophobia: ... Russians...
...first of which, Dr. No, premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
Publishing in conservative journals like Nash Sovremennik (Our Contemporary) ; and Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard), ideologists for the Russian renewal movement rant against "Russophobia" and what they view as a deliberate campaign by the "ultra-left press" and "Zionists." They have called for an end to subsidies paid out of the national budget to other republics and for the creation of separate government agencies, public organizations and a television network to serve only Russia -- all of which the other 14 republics already enjoy. Valentin Rasputin, a nationalist writer known for his portrayals of Russian rural life, has even suggested that Russia...
...undercurrent of Russophobia runs through the country. Says a Finnish grandmother whose husband died fighting against the Russians: "I can't help thinking of them as enemies." Businessmen frequently complain that they cannot find enough Russian-speaking employees to meet their needs. Says Pentti Somerto, managing director of the Finnish Employers' Confederation: "Young people feel it is not patriotic to learn Russian." By contrast, 92% of Finns study English as a second language. Helsinki is shamelessly Western, a triumph of capitalistic materialism, replete with Cartier jewelry and Sassoon-trained hairstylists...
...greatest obstacle [in defining a positive Swedish policy] perhaps is Russophobia. Here Foreign Minister and Career Diplomat Christian Gunther and the Social Democrats find common ground. The latter most fear the Communists. . . . Fear of Russian intentions after the war is a dominant note as an Allied victory seems more certain. . . . The situation would be worse were it not for the presence in Stockholm during the past decade of one of the most remarkable, yet little known, figures in Europe: Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Stockholm and first fully accredited woman diplomat in modern times. One of the last...
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