Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian voters have largely voted against the incumbent in each of the two elections since a massive wave of post-Soviet immigrants began arriving in the early '90s. They were indispensable to Netanyahu's nail-biting 51 percent victory in 1996 -- and that may turn out to be his Achilles' heel. For Netanyahu's coalition also depends heavily on the support of ultra-orthodox religious parties, and tensions between the Russians and the ultra-orthodox have erupted into open political warfare in recent weeks...
...death your right to say it." Burning the flag is a childish but far from unconscionable way to protest governmental action. Thus, I find the proposed amendment disturbingly reminiscent of the criminalization of any physical desecration of Stalin's portrait, intentional or unintentional, in the now-defunct Soviet Union...
...Clark's ideas, this is the most seductive. A small, powerful force that can be quickly moved anywhere around the globe seems a perfect match for problem spots like Kosovo. The Army has been trying to pull it off for two decades, reaching back to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which made Washington planners nervous about conflicts in that part of the world. But the idea died amid Army politics and lean budgets...
Beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union, Fritz describes the violent and turbulent social migrations created by these changes. In Eastern Europe people free from oppressive communist regimes for the first time in generations poured into Berlin. Citizens of Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries fled to West Germany, while many West Germans took advantage of their opportunity to travel in East Germany again. Fritz writers that "Everywhere, everyone caught a scent of something--prosperity, pop culture, maybe--and went a little loony," Romanian Gypsies came to Berlin mostly in dire...
...break-up of the Soviet Union is viewed by Fritz as a major factor in increased migration and emigration. Fritz argues that the "forced collectivization of the '20s, the ideological purges of the '30s and the ethnic shuffling of perceived Nazi sympathizers during the '40s "caused much displacement and conflict in terms of people of different ethnicities and nationalities thrown together haphazardly. For example, in describing the independence movement in Chechnya, Fritz tells of the conflicts between Chechens, Russians and the Ingush who wanted to unite with North Ossetia, who in turn wanted to unite with South Ossetia which...