Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into ousting him on at least three occasions recently. Each time Yeltsin, whose canny political instincts are undiminished by physical ill-health, chose to ignore him. Yeltsin did not want to make a martyr. The President's career had, after all, been made when he was dismissed from the Soviet communist leadership. Lebed has been feeling thwarted ever since going into the government in June, in what was seen at the time as a brilliant move by Yeltsin campaign organizer Chubais. Lebed took the job expecting to be both heir apparent and acting President. But other equally ambitious politicians--Chubais...
...Poland is under Soviet domination," Gerald Ford is saying as he watches the debate from an expensive condo next to some golf course. "Italy is not under Soviet domination. Hungary is under Soviet domination." Ford chants rhythmically, like a schoolchild naming state capitals...
...crowd led by students and workers, soon to be known as freedom fighters, toppled the colossal statue of Stalin that had dominated the main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party led by Matyas Rakosi...
...communist Imre Nagy, held out the hope of a more democratic, independent Hungary--"socialism with a human face," as the leaders of the Prague spring of 1968 were to proclaim. But in Budapest as later in Prague, that hope ended in disaster. On November 4, a huge fleet of Soviet tanks entered the Hungarian capital and over the next few days destroyed large portions of it. Imre Nagy and several members of his cabinet were tried for treason and eventually executed. Thousands more were imprisoned or killed during those years. Thousands fled the country, leaving behind split families, broken romances...
...more than 30 years in Soviet-dominated Hungary, 1956 was a taboo subject--or if discussed at all, it had to be referred to as a "counterrevolution," more often than not preceded by the adjective "fascist." Then, after Communist Party boss Janos Kadar retired in 1988 (by then, the Party had changed its name to "Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party"), things changed: A government functionary announced that "new research in the archives" showed 1956 had been a popular uprising, not a counterrevolution. In June 1989, months before the official end of communism in Eastern Europe, Imre Nagy was given a state...