Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's right-wing and reactionary allies were ignored or even encouraged and praised using twisted anti-communist logic. For example, the Reagan administration pretended that the rape, torture and murder of civilians ranging from students to nuns in El Salvador was merely a legitimate attempt to resist Soviet encroachment in the Western hemisphere. These myths were also propagated by the mass media...
...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
...affidavit, in June 1994, one day after Nicholson's last reported meeting with the Russian, $12,000 was wired to Nicholson's savings account in Eugene, Oregon. Later agency hands would remember how Aldrich Ames had offered himself to the Russians: by getting permission to meet a Soviet agent that he told his superiors he was trying to recruit...
...Russian scientists of all stripes, the hard times began the moment the old empire crumbled. Once the pampered elite of Soviet society, chemists, physicists and other highly trained researchers currently earn as little as $100 a month. According to Lev Mukhin, a science and technology counselor in the Russian embassy in Washington, most scientists today have to hold two or three jobs to make ends meet. Just last month the head of one of Russia's prestigious nuclear-research centers wrote a letter complaining about his inability to get his projects financed or his workers paid, and then he shot...
...lesson I would draw from Molly's problem with eggs is that old one about unintended consequences. It's the lesson that was always drawn from the Soviet propaganda film of cold war legend that had been intended to demonstrate the brutality of strike-busting thugs beating peaceful American workers but apparently left Russian audiences impressed instead with the fact that all the workers seemed to be wearing decent shoes...