Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...breeding ground for piracy, and the Cold War's end helped make that possible. "I can remember driving down the roads in Somalia, and you'd see all these scrap heaps of MiGs and tanks" from the 1969-1991 reign of Siad Barre, the Somali dictator allied with the Soviet Union, Zinni says. "During the Cold War, one side or the other kept authoritarian regimes in power who controlled this sort of thing...
...mentioned entering seven or eight new markets: what are the others? In addition to India and Mexico, the possibilities include countries like Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia and Serbia. These are not huge markets but they're new markets for us. We're also discussing some of the former Soviet Republics, like Kazakhstan. Also South Korea, which is not a developing country, but it's a huge market. (Read "5 Best Places to Travel in a Recession...
...similar idea: "From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs." The reality of a system where hard work is not rewarded is that people lose their incentive to work. That means there is less wealth to share, which is hardly "good for everybody." In the Soviet Union, it took about 70 years for this system to bring the economy to utter ruin. Let us hope that today we are wiser than to revisit that philosophy. Joseph K.Valaitis, Brecksville, Ohio...
...alike though in being chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular...
...Obama-Medvedev talk on Saturday as a “constructive and positive interaction,” whatever that means. For the new American administration, the goal will be to keep Russia from arming countries like Venezuela or Iran and threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The price will be hefty, including perhaps a renegotiation of Bush’s precious missile defense shield, but the rewards are worth it: Bringing Russia into closer relations with the U.S. has the potential to further democratic elements within Moscow’s sphere of power, weakening...