Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission's representative in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the pair executed on charges of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union...
There is, for example, a whole generation of Soviet officials who put perfectly sane dissidents into psychiatric prisons and presided over that hell called the gulag. Those officials are not just running around the world. Some of them are still running Russia...
...also opposes the immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union who were prevented from practicing their religion by the communists, arguing that they are atheists whose language and culture are alien to that of real Americans. Nor is their nativism limited to hatred of Jews; they oppose the immigration of Latinos as well...
APRIL 1982: Kremlin officials attribute a four-week absence by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to a "routine winter vacation." Within the year, he dies...
...U.A.W. convention, Reuther emerged as president in a closely fought race, on a platform against Soviet communist "outside interference" and for a new, more socially conscious approach to collective bargaining. He pledged to work for "a labor movement whose philosophy demands that it fight for the welfare of the public at large...We won the war. The task now is to win the peace." Two years later, a would-be assassin, for reasons still unknown, fired shots through Reuther's kitchen window, shattering his right...