Word: sovietize
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...longer an ideology to be taken seriously. What would have happened, though, if Harry had not sported the swastika but opted for the hammer and the sickle instead? Would the public outcry have been as vocal and immediate, and as monolithically damning, if Harry had worn a Soviet instead of Nazi uniform? No, it most certainly would not have been. In our society communist paraphernalia is considered to be humorous or ironic; it is almost never viewed with the outright revulsion we reserve for the Nazis...
...chosen to sport the hammer and the sickle of Stalin, Beria and Dzerzhinsky instead of the swastika of Hitler, Göring and Goebbels he would have attracted little notice. The widespread popularity of Che, Castro, Lenin, CCCP or Marx t-shirts, and the frequent usage of the Soviet five-pointed star or the crossed hammer and sickle, are only the most obvious examples of the curious double standard between our views on Nazism and Soviet Communism. Harvard’s own beloved “Mathergrad,” in addition to the appearance of the Soviet flag...
...tens of millions of victims of Soviet tyranny, including many thousands who fled to the United States, the Hammer and the Sickle are anything but a laughing matter; they are the symbols of a tyranny that carried out acts as depraved, bloodthirsty and merciless as anything propagated by Hitler’s Third Reich. The lack of outrage over the continued usage of Soviet images is disturbing, because it suggests a shocking lack of historical perspective. While few are prepared to say it, the Russia that Lenin and Stalin forged in the blood of millions of nameless peasants...
...problem of international terrorism are not about to make this cooperation the organizing principle of their foreign policy, for the simple reason that they don't see the problem of terrorism as anything remotely approaching the geopolitical menace represented by the Axis powers in World War II, or the Soviet bloc in the half century that followed. The idea that the world changed on September 11 has less currency among U.S. allies than the Bush administration might like, and even Blair's Britain has entered 2005 proclaiming poverty, AIDS and global warming as foreign policy priorities. Also, many U.S. allies...
...beyond me. The man is an intellectual midget. His presidency has been marked by the full-scale manipulation of reality at all levels. The person responsible for that is political operative Rove, not Bush, who is a bumbling spokesman. To fill the gap left by the disappearance of the Soviet Union, the Administration created a new enemy, terrorism. But achieving that goal has only strengthened U.S. adversaries, especially al-Qaeda. Eventually, reality will come back with a vengeance, but it is the successors to the Bush Administration who will have to deal with it. Peter Van Roy Louvain-la-Neuve...