Word: sovietization
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...handcuffed, the man crouched on the ground, surrounded by Afghan soldiers and their U.S. Marine mentors. He had been found with insurgent propaganda and a Taliban flag and had a bruise on his shoulder - the kind the Afghan soldiers recognized from their days of carrying AK-47s while fighting Soviet forces more than 20 years ago. He said he was an illiterate shepherd, but he had a notebook full of writing. He claimed never to have visited Pakistan, but his mobile phone was filled with Pakistani numbers. Most likely, he was an insurgent. But the U.S. service members...
...inhuman nature in the cold numbers of capitalism, that's what stuns you.' LASZLO VARNAI, mayor of Kiskunhalas, Hungary, on the closing of the town's Levi Strauss & Co. plant, once a successful symbol of Western capitalism in the ex-Soviet nation...
...recent years, Russian developers have taken an interest in Sihanoukville, helming many inventive projects, including Snake House (a guesthouse, restaurant and zoo on Mittapheap Kampuchea-Soviet Street; +855-12-673-805) and the town's most impressive bar, Airport (Krong Street; +855-34-934-470). It's an open hangar housing a real Antonov-24 turboprop plane, which makes up the club's VIP section. The airport opens onto Victory Beach, which during the day offers a small, calm, shallow shoreline without the hectic scene found on Serendipity...
...fast, say some Czechs, who still remember living under Soviet domination. "I don't want to be under the Russian sphere of influence but under the American one," says David Cerny, 41, a celebrated if slightly infamous local artist. Cerny wants the U.S. to stick to the missile shield plan. "It would be really sad if this intelligent guy who succeeded Bush, about whom no one had a high opinion, would barter Eastern Europe for a better image of the United States," Cerny says, worrying that Obama is drawing too close to Russia...
...NATO doesn't have much more going on besides the bitter, remote war to which its member nations are reluctant to commit blood and treasure. During the 1990s, the Alliance began expanding, inducting nine new members from Eastern Europe's former Soviet territories and satellites that sought protection from Russian power. But that program seemed to hit a wall last August, when Georgia fought a five-day war against Russia for control of South Ossetia. Georgia, whose bid to join the Alliance had been strongly backed by the U.S., was viewed by many Western officials as having provoked a senseless...