Word: stalinism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, under Stalin...
...What Stalin was that...
...people all the fun and trappings of a real election -- voting not publicly by show of hands but in private in red-curtained booths behind closed doors." Most people would assume that editorial had been written about Gorbachev's Russia in 1989. In fact, it was written about Stalin's Russia in the 1930s. Gorbachev is certainly not a Stalinist, but he is also just as certainly not a Jeffersonian democrat. We should examine his motives just as coldly as he is examining ours...
...Pope did offer his endorsement of perestroika, all the while pressing home his "expectation" that Ukrainian Catholics would be allowed to exercise their faith fully and openly. The Ukrainian Church, which follows the Eastern liturgy but claims the Pope as its spiritual leader, was banned and driven underground by Stalin...
Since the early 1940s the United States has been fighting authoritarianism around the world. During the '30s, before America embraced its role as a major player in world affairs, the shadow of repressive governments spread over much of the planet: Hitler and his Nazis controlled Germany; Italy was fascist; Stalin and his secret police ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist; a small military cabal dominated Japan...