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...unstoppable shotmaker, scoring 84 goals in 85 matches for his national team. In 1953 he starred in one of soccer's most famous contests: a surprise trouncing of England that debuted the fast, flowing style of play with which Hungary would dominate-and revolutionize-the game. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, the rebellious Puskás defected to the West, going on to score 324 goals for soccer powerhouse Real Madrid-four of them in a legendary European Cup final in 1960. After many years in exile, he returned to Hungary, which in 2001 renamed...
...misuse of psychiatry is one of the more recent examples. During Operation T4, German psychiatrists branded those citizens who did not meet the Nazi criteria for normality as “feebleminded” and subsequently had them “euthanized” in German psychiatric hospitals. The Soviet government operated in a similar fashion, labeling those who chafed under the yoke of communist dictatorship as insane and forcing them to take mind-altering drugs...
...control their behavior did not end with Hitler or Stalin. Today, in Russia, as the Los Angeles Times reported on May 30, local governments quietly hustle off to mental asylums those individuals who get on the wrong side of local politicians. Considering the Russians’ track record under Soviet rule, perhaps that’s no surprise...
Ravaged by desertification and poverty, the Central Asian city of Nukus is hardly on the tourist trail. Most people have never even heard of it or of Karakalpakstan, the autonomous republic of which Nukus is the capital. Reaching the city involves a knuckle-whitening three-hour flight in a Soviet-era aircraft - or a 40-hour drive across the steppes - from the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. But when you finally arrive at Nukus, there are two surreal sights to behold. The first is the dried-up bed of the Aral Sea - once the world's fourth-largest lake...
...East Germany disintegrated, Wolf called for reforms, but finally sought asylum in the Soviet Union. He claimed to have turned down a CIA offer for a lifetime of ease in the U.S. if he would spill his secrets. He later returned to Germany and was sentenced to six years in prison for treason, but the conviction was overturned on the grounds that East Germany had been a sovereign state for which he had been entitled to spy. He was later convicted on kidnapping-related charges, but received a suspended sentence. That left him free to reinvent himself, which...