Word: sovietize
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...convenience and monetary expense. Harvard students probably wouldn’t even notice if the bells were replaced with any other set of bulky and painfully mistuned relics. In contrast, residents of Moscow clearly consider the bells to be symbolic of a tradition that was rudely interrupted by Soviet oppression. It is arrogant and disgraceful for us to throw some food at “starving Siberian children” and tell them to be satisfied while we meaninglessly imprison a symbol of their pride and heritage...
...processes. The other chief result of the summit will have the same effect. After more than two years of tough negotiations, some of which went down to the wire last Friday night, the E.U. agreed the exact terms under which 10 candidate countries, most of them survivors of the Soviet bloc, will join the Union on May 1, 2004. "The deal that we have reached here in Copenhagen represents the E.U. at its best: leadership, solidarity and determination," said European Commission President Romano Prodi. The Union will need plenty more of the same. Pending ratification of the accession agreements...
...highlands are renowned for their spectacular scenery, waterfalls and rich hill-tribe culture. But there's another ubiquitous sight along the north's twisting mountain roads: the smoke-belching, gear-grinding, Eastern bloc motorcycle throwback that Vietnamese call con trau gia (the old buffalo). First imported from the Soviet Union in the 1960s, the Minsk's two-stroke engine and body have hardly changed over the years. Northern Vietnam has undeniably become Minsk country, and the old buffalo are used for everything, from personal transportation to hauling pigs, cows and chickens to hill-tribe markets...
...Vietnamese are mystified by the large number of foreigners riding around the capital on the ungainly, smoke-billowing "peasant bike," which offers an unwelcome reminder of Soviet domination. But the foreign devotees don't care. "I may never get a Vietnamese girlfriend riding this bike," says Minsk enthusiast Digby Greenhalgh. "But I can get up any mountain." Armed with a Minsk, a tool kit and a good map, few places are out of reach for the adventurous weekend warrior; those with a week can take in an astonishing array of landscapes and locations of historic and cultural interest. The "Grand...
...Russians are mad at Harvard again. But this time, instead of faculty bungling their economy, it’s an alum pilfering their bells. In 1930, Charles Crane bought 18 bells from the St. Danilov Monastery to save them from the Soviet authorities, who wanted to melt them down, and donated them to Harvard. But now the rebuilt monastery wants them back by March...