Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also yesterday, nearly 10,000 people marched through Leipzig, East Germany, demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption of democratic reforms. It was the largest mass opposition demonstration since 1953, when workers rose throughout East Germany in an ill-fated uprising later crushed by Soviet tanks...
Bonn officals said Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze was instrumental in winning the release of East German refugees and that Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev was in touch with Bonn on the matter...
...exploit their labor," says Ralph. "I think we're doing that in our farm in Ohio, because all the workers are doing their own managing, owning, and sharing the benefits and risks. They are not exploiting anyone else's cheap labor." Left unsaid is that in the Soviet Union, the situation may be exactly the reverse. Says Ralph: "If any of these state farms were set down in Ohio, they would soon go bankrupt...
Despite the changes taking place in the Soviet Union, Dull's millennium is still a long way off. "It will take another five years to see real results in increased production," he believes, "The entrenched inefficiency and mismanagement that are part of the Soviet bureaucratic system, however, will take even longer to root...
...WORLD: Soviet President Gorbachev, still a master politician, has a problem with "the vision thing...