Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union were the monsters of the 20th century, China has all the makings of becoming the monster of the 21st century. The Chinese government steals technology from the U.S., sells arms and technology illegally to other countries, violates human rights with impunity, amasses nuclear weapons, continues to occupy Tibet and threatens Taiwan's safety and security. Yet it always gets a sweetheart deal from the U.S. and is crowned a most favored nation. By the time we finally wake up, the monster will have emerged full-fledged. CHARLES PUTHOTA Milwaukee...
...Ancient Athens, mortals could only gaze up in wonder to the clouds atop Mount Olympus, where the whims of the gods determined their lives. For Soviet Russians, the same mystery surrounded the Politburo, where secret meetings shaped their lives. Harvard...
...hard to overstate how remarkable and surprising to most people this war in the name of peace is. On the eve of its 50th birthday, NATO, a defensive alliance founded to protect Western Europe from Soviet invasion, has struck hard at a sovereign state that is not a threat to the allies. Without a specific U.N. Security Council authorization, NATO is intervening in a civil war, a war of secession, to halt the cruelty with which it is being fought--especially by the Serbs. In the process, the allies run the risk that their attacks might increase the level...
Fermi died prematurely of stomach cancer in Chicago in 1954. He had argued against U.S. development of the hydrogen bomb when that project was debated in 1949, calling it "a weapon which in practical effect is almost one of genocide." His counsel went unheeded, and the U.S.-Soviet arms race that ensued put the world at mortal risk. But the discovery of how to release nuclear energy, in which he played so crucial a part, had long-term beneficial results: the development of an essentially unlimited new source of energy and the forestalling, perhaps permanently, of world-scale...
...Joseph Stalin's favorite scientist, and it's easy to see why. Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism. He offered instead to solve the Soviet Union's chronic crop failures through a process he called vernalization, by which he would "train" spring wheat to be winter wheat and thus increase the number of annual harvests. Lysenko believed all living organisms passed on to succeeding generations characteristics acquired in their lifetime. This untested theory was at odds with what Lysenko scathingly called "alien bourgeois" genetics...