Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet empire is so passe. Diplomats gloat over the fall of the evil empire while economists gleefully herald the triumph of The Market. The same liberal intellectuals who had once defended the notion of a socialist society now denounce it as merely another imperialist ideology propagated by dead white guys. It seems like Sovietism has been permanently relegated to being a invaluable subject of academic research and a provider of military medals, fur hats and other stylishly hip cold war memorabilia. Gone are the missiles, air-raid drills, and fallout shelters. And Tom Clancy's early books can be safely...
...have become very caught up in the Soviet Union for two reasons," Soros said. "I care very much about an open society and I have very deep pockets...
Soros' definition of an open society has three parts--a civil society based on a common interest, a free market economic system and a democratic government. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, he said he has concentrated his efforts on central and Eastern Europe...
...fulfilling prophesies when an influential scholar such as Albert J. Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington declares that 'Islam has bloody borders' and suggests that the next enemy of the West is the Arab and Islamic World. Such a paranoid search for new enemies after the demise of the Soviet Union will result in new enemies...
Arrested on several occasions for his beliefs, Wald made special visits to Vietnam, China, Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union...