Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expert on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, she entered government service on the staff of the National Security Council in 1978. In 1993, she was tapped as the U.S.'s permanent representative to the United Nations...
...Kirkland House senior and his mother, Valeria Sinyavaskaya, emigrated to Jacksonville, Fla., from the former Soviet Union in 1991, seeking refuge from the communist nation whose government "told you what to think, what to wear, where to work and how to live each moment of your life," Appelbaum says...
...fled to the United States. John and his mother managed to obtain passports four years later. Their journey was nerve-wracking, as they hid visas in their backpacks and prayed they wouldn't be detained by border patrol officers. They reunited with Jacob after renouncing their Soviet citizenship upon arriving in New York City...
...Appelbaum, owning a gun is part of being an American. Perhaps he feels a firearm demonstrates the most powerful exercise of the freedom: it symbolizes a means of protecting oneself against a tyrannical government. Guns, he points out, were outlawed in the former Soviet Union...
Granit Taropin joined the Crimson this year as an assistant coach. Taropin is internationally known for his success as a Soviet National Coach and for training grappling greats such as the Beloglasov twins, Sergie and Anatoly, who won Olympic gold in Moscow and Seoul respectively...