Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...
...stated, both of us, that the world leaves one epoch of Cold War and enters another epoch," Gorbachev said at an unprecedented joint news conference that marked the end of two days of storm-tossed talks held aboard a Soviet luxury liner. "We are just at the very beginning of our long road to a long-lasting peaceful period...
...real obstacle to German reunification lies with the Soviet Union, where a prolonged discussion of Germany is likely to stir up latent anti-German sentiment and a fear of neo-Nazism. Officially, the Soviets are civil, but determinedly dead-set against reunification. Nikolai Portugalov, a Soviet expert on Germany, explained the Soviet stance to the Boston Globe last week. "The present geopolitical conditions in Europe," he said with Kruschev-like bluntness, "cannot tolerate a German confederation...
MARSAXLOKK BAY, Malta--President Bush and Soviet Leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev wrapped up two days of superpower summitry yesterday, claiming strides toward a new era of East-West peace but underscoring differences that linger at the end of a 45-year Cold...
...Lafayette and then tallied 34 points and snared 21 rebounds in a 68-65 loss to Cornell. No other Colgate player is averaging in double figures. Today's game may mark the season debut of 5-ft., 11-in. forward Lolita Paegle, who hails from Riga, Latvia, in the Soviet Union...