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...fire extinguisher. But paramedics couldn't save him. Adamec called his self-immolation "Action Torch 2003" and chose his location carefully - just steps from the spot where a history student named Jan Palach had set himself on fire in 1969 to protest the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. Adamec explained in a 1,500-word suicide note posted on the Web that he was following Palach's example to protest "the so-called democratic system where not people but money and power rule." He warned that "unless humankind radically changes its ways within the next several decades...
...beset by bad luck. Frequent storms halted filming, a number of actors fell ill, and it proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed, for example. The key moment in the film, when the mother sees a Soviet helicopter carrying away a huge bust of Lenin, took weeks to shoot because of weather problems and a malfunctioning Russian chopper. Goodbye Lenin! won the Blue Angel, the award for the best European film, at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival in February. And critics are wowed. "It is grippingly funny...
Wechsler secretly decided to leave the army. On the same weekend that he received the packet, Wechsler left his army station and jumped into the Danube, swimming across to the Soviet zone on the other side...
Allison, who said “Europe is totally preoccupied with the self-development of Europe,” cited the fall of the Soviet Union, Europe’s lack of power in comparison to the United States, and differences over cultural issues like religion...
...among the few Westerners who have had a taste of Mongolia, the rocky, remote north-central Asian country with few fences and fewer roads-the realm of Genghis Khan and a political tug toy of China and Russia until well into the 20th century. Since the Alaska-size former Soviet satellite gained independence in 1990, it has opened to travelers seeking adventure in breathtakingly pristine country. A dearth of such conveniences as electricity and phones makes Mongolia a challenge, but that's part of the attraction. A growing number of outfitters supply amenities that range from adequate to near opulent...