Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...branded as a "counterrevolutionary rightist" by the government because of his criticism of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. He was sentenced to China's laogai...
...neither Jiang nor China will shy away from increasing world involvement and the world's democratic influence. Not a few observers have predicted that China, with five times the population of the United States, will fill the economic, political and military power vacuum left by the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In this emerging balance of power, with the stakes as high as economic and military security for all, we hope Beijing does not retreat into defensive isolation...
...China fed or increase literacy. Only maintaining a corrupt, elite Communist cadre necessitates such outrages; the meal ticket Jiang really cares about is his own. It is not coincidental that the two greatest famines that occurred during in the 20th century apart from those during civil wars were in Soviet Ukraine (1930s) and Communist China (1960s). History has shown that democracy is more likely to care for its citizens in times of need than totalitarian regimes...
...rights within his country. He is implicated in the jailing of political dissidents, in the harsh and arbitrary application of capital punishment, in the subjugation of Tibet, in the construction and maintaining of a vast system of prison labor camps comparable to some of the worst years of the Soviet gulag. He is one of the most inappropriate guests in all of Harvard's past to speak in Sanders Theatre...
When William W. Burke-White '98 met former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev at the State of the World Forum in San Francisco last year, they discussed ways to bring young world leaders into a meaningful political and social discourse...