Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cold War has been declared officially over many times in the last few weeks. Poland has replaced its government, East Germany has opened the Berlin Wall, and Czechoslovakia has begun to give in to protestors' demands. All this is happening with the encouragement, if not the active participation, of Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev...
...here in the Western hemisphere, our own government persists in believing in Soviet aggression. in Central America. Using "Marxism" as a synonym for evil, we justify our policies as attempts to root out the pernicious seeds of Communism...
...Bush Administration clings to the notion of Soviet domination in Central America in the face of international and domestic pressure to cut off military aid to El Salvador. This pressure comes at a time when the influence of right-wing death squads--some closely affiliated with President Alfredo Cristiani's ARENA party--is increasing. The most outrageous of the recent human rights abuses include the killing and mutilation of six priests, their cook and her fifteen-year-old daughter, at the hands of 30 men in military dress...
...reunified Germany aligned itself with NATO, the Soviet Union would fear an invasion from the West and would arm accordingly. Such fears would not be irrational. German armies have attacked the Soviet Union twice in the last 75 years by marching through Eastern Europe...
...Soviet buildups would then cause pressure for American counter buildups, which would further destabilize the situation. At some point one side will decide that the best defensive strategy in Central Europe is offensive, and the fuse to World War III will have been...