Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When it was necessary to deploy the military, for example, to guard the railway between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Supreme Soviet voted...
...major decisions on domestic and foreign policy. Our military, by the way, especially the command, is very disciplined and brought up in a spirit of respect for the bodies of power in this country. In the U.S., there are many who underestimate this factor and think that in the Soviet Union the highest military command can get its own way on major matters. This is absolutely out of the question. Your estimation of your own military would be no different. It acts in a spirit of respect toward the President and Congress...
...Soviet parliament...
...cities tens of thousands attended open-air meetings with government and party leaders to vent their complaints and demands. In Moscow Krenz sought to cool the reform fever raging through his country by paying polite compliments to the perestroika that East German leaders had formerly held in contempt. The Soviet experiments could "teach us a great deal," he said after being closeted for three hours with Mikhail Gorbachev. "We are ready to put the vanguard experience...
...begged those who "think about emigrating" to give him a chance. "Put trust in our policy of renewal," advised Krenz, promising a "far- reaching program" to change the constitution, the economy and the education system. Yet he defined perestroika merely as something to "make socialism more attractive." For him, Soviet-style reform seemed not so much a welcome formula for change as a last-ditch effort to prop up the East German system before the rift between the party and society grows too wide to bridge. He flatly rejected any suggestion that East Germany might be merging into the West...