Word: stalinist
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Soros, who was born in Budapest in 1930, lived underground with his Jewish family during Nazi rule and fled to England in 1947 when Russian occupation led to a Stalinist regime...
...North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...Ehrenburg surely would have supported." Rubinstein seems to have forgotten his own account of how, during the similar 1956 revolt in Hungary, Ehrenburg was dispatched to a foreign writers' conference to defend Khrushchev's brutal intervention against criticism, a job he performed without complaint. True, Ehrenburg was no fawning Stalinist; but to imply that he was some sort of conscientious objector trivializes the sacrifices made by real dissidents...
...stalking horse. One of the doubters is General Alexander Lebed, a national hero and presidential candidate being wooed by Zyuganov. Lebed believes the communist candidate probably holds social-democratic views but, he told a Russian newspaper, that "those who stand behind him are communists of a Stalinist type. If they should come to power, in all likelihood they will try to turn the country back" to Soviet-style rule. Yeltsin's handlers will focus on this apprehension during the campaign and argue that Zyuganov cannot be trusted. They have begun with the slogan "Russia cannot afford another...
Some key aspects of reforms, like unfettered prices and budget austerity, are in danger if Zyuganov wins in June. Yegor Gaidar, the original architect of Yeltsin's policies, believes a return to a Stalinist state is impossible now, but he fears that the economy's nascent stability might not survive a communist restoration. If Zyuganov reaches the Kremlin, he says, the result may be populism of the sort that Juan Peron tried in Argentina, marked by irresponsible government spending, high inflation, price controls and shortages...