Word: stalinization
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...Estonians contend that, technically speaking, they are not seceding. They are simply restoring the sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...American South voluntarily joined the American Union. Lithuania was conquered and involuntarily absorbed into the Soviet Union. Its original incorporation being illegitimate, it is not really seceding, it is merely reasserting a pre- existing independence of which it was robbed 50 years ago when jointly raped by Hitler and Stalin...
Cleverer American: Cut it out! The Union cause was just. The South had not been illegally, forcibly annexed. Stop implicitly comparing George Washington with Joe Stalin...
...state remain in NATO, though Western troops and bases could be kept out of what is now East Germany. "We cannot agree to that," says President Mikhail Gorbachev. "It is absolutely out of the question." The U.S.S.R. has made German neutrality an article of faith ever since Stalin's days, even though Soviet fears might be better calmed by a Germany answerable to a larger military command than standing...
Which we also won. And after which we demobilized again: 9 million men in the first year after the Japanese surrender. Stalin was slower to embrace the pleasures of civilian life. He kept 3 million men under arms, the U.S. half that number. Stalin kept a massive occupation force in Europe. The U.S. decided this time that leaving Europe entirely would be a mistake, so, having radically demobilized, we chose to stay on the cheap -- with nuclear weapons, an expediency that kept the world on the nuclear precipice for 40 years...