Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement signed last weekend at the Kennedy School of Government promises to make home mortgages widely available to citizens of Moscow for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union...
Zhurek explained that Soviet Moscow was overcrowded and that a lack of housing was a major problem. In the last few years, though, Luzhkin's regime has built 75,000 new apartments each year, Zhurek noted...
...Army had been streaming into the city for a month, brutalizing Hungary's October revolution. The foggy nights, filled all fall with the sounds of ecstatic students, were now split with the jostle of machinery--10 divisions of Soviet tanks--and the uneven light of Molotov cocktails thrown through the rain. Fear blossomed in the dampness. The Premier vanished...
...These revelations may be nothing new to a public that is becoming immune to the government's Cold War follies ? they're certainly small beer compared with the Soviet Union's estimated 175 peace-time atomic tests. But it could be a call to arms to residents of Richland, Washington, who will be able to read details on the Internet of the Hanford nuclear reservation, which appears to have decided to dump radioactive water directly into the Columbia river. Although releasing documents won't turn back the clock, it may make the DOE think twice about such outlandish experiments...
Kids aren't the only ones the government wants to protect from cyberporn. The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated refunds of $2.75 million for thousands of U.S. customers who unwittingly racked up charges in a Net sex scam in which supposedly free Websites rerouted modem connections through the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, taking lascivious surfers on a very costly ride...