Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million: Estimated amount paid by the U.S. for each of 21 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets bought this year from Moldova...
...most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked out of thin air. Hersh goes on to argue that amid the "fanaticism" exhibited by both J.F.K. and Castro, only Khrushchev had the level-headedness to end this...
Hersh claims to present a "new history" of the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts previously accepted versions. But he offers almost nothing substantively new, other than an unsupported claim that Kennedy allowed himself to be deceived about Soviet intentions by a private, back-channel Kremlin source and hence delayed sending critical reconnaissance missions over Cuba in the fall of 1962. Hersh's clumsy effort to portray Kennedy's handling of the crisis as reckless and politically motivated is a much inferior version of an intelligent, if controversial, argument Garry Wills presented 15 years ago in The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation...
...THAT THE Soviet Union has fallen, there aren't many great bureaucracies left. Which is why the first IRS Problem Solving Day last Saturday was, in the end, a rather sad occasion. No one wants to see the Revenue boys ? the guys that have those militia fellas all in knots, the guys that brought down Al Capone, for gosh sakes ? reduced to wearing brightly colored buttons and greeting you like the preacher in the receiving line after Sunday meeting. You want your tax service to put the fear of God into you, to be firm but fair, and for there...
...case study of the different aesthetic views of the East and the West at the start of the Cold war. As one critic wrote of it, "It is one of the most beautiful, most exalted of [Prokofiev's] works...this great work shows once again how immeasurably superior Soviet music is to the music of the Capitalist West." Ironically, aside from a few such critics, the symphony had a poor reception in the Soviet Union, and thus was not published until 1949--in New York...