Word: socialistic
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...Churchill might have observed: some leader, some transition. Gorbachev presided over the dissolution of a truly evil empire, brought freedom to hundreds of millions of oppressed people and lifted the threat of a cataclysmic nuclear war. The wonder was not that the President of the Soviet Union, a fervent socialist to the end, managed his revolution well but that he launched...
...words of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, seemed to drag on "through some sort of sick eternity." Finally Yeltsin and the Presidents of Ukraine and Belorussia -- founding republics of the old union in 1922 and still its Slavic core -- decided to sign a death certificate: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence...
Members of the Spartacus League, a campus socialist club, criticized their exclusion from the meeting...
Despite their landslide victory in Albania's first free elections last spring, the old communist rulers have had trouble holding on to power as the wave of reform sweeps over Europe's poorest and most isolated country. Reincarnated as the Socialist Party, they were forced by a rash of strikes to enter into a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party in June. Last week Democratic leader Sali Berisha charged his governing partners with "attempting to create a neodictatorship" and pulled his seven ministers out of the 21-member Cabinet...
Despite its silliness, Get a New Job, Joe Blunsten's socialist theme is not entirely lost on the audience. "It exposes the American Capitalist myth for the bullshit it really is," says Josh S. Byard '93. "Joe Blunsten, by using the genre of the situation comedy, subverts the entire value system for which it stands." Or, as Gailiunas simply states, "The point is, a lot of money doesn't make you into a nice person...