Word: sovietica
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...increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make Moscow the guarantor of peace in Europe and thus replace 25 years of Pax Americana with Pax Sovietica...
...Sovietica. Moscow's major overture was to invite the Western European countries to join the East Bloc in a European Security Conference, which the Russians hope to convene in Helsinki during the first half of 1970. The Soviets say somewhat grudgingly that they have "no objection" to the U.S. and Canada attending. For Moscow, the primary purpose of the conference would be to formalize the status quo in Europe by guaranteeing existing borders. The long-range Soviet goal may well be to convince the Europeans that an American military presence is no longer needed on the Continent and thereby...
Some Western critics fear that the Russian plan would replace the Pax Americana that was established in Western Europe after World War II with a Pax Sovietica maintained by the Red Army. Even so, many Western Europeans, including some NATO foreign ministers, see nothing wrong in at least gauging Soviet intentions by attending the conference...
...Guatemala there were actually rigid social stratifications and reactionary landlords, just as the books said. At some point his tidy, army-trained mind closed around the rudimentary theory and snapped shut with an approving click. He made no attempt to delve deeper, but took to reading La Union Sovietica. He once showed a friend an illustration of a perfectly ordinary automatic bakery oven and exclaimed, "What wonders the Soviets have accomplished!" At the Bridge. By 1948 Arbenz had plenty of money, a smattering of political theory and a firm ambition to be Arevalo's successor. Squarely blocking...