Word: stalinize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When sanctions are imposed against authoritarian regimes, the prospects for success are little better. From Stalin's Russia to Saddam's Iraq, dictators have been able to force their disenfranchised citizens to endure economic hardship in the face of a foreign challenge. Citizens of totalitarian states have no constitutional means for translating their discontent into political change...
Fortunately, Stalin was just probing. Thank goodness we didn't move troops into Czechoslovakia -- at least not on that occasion. The Czechoslovaks had the warmest and the most brotherly feelings toward us, especially compared with the peoples of certain other countries...
...Stalin was to blame. He was a criminal in this respect, and criminals should be tried. They should be tried not only in a courtroom by a judge but by society as well. The strongest trial is to brand Stalin a criminal in literature...
...Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
...reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro's bid to launch nuclear missiles against...