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...democracy were supposed to improve the lives of communism's huddled masses; instead most Russians today are considerably worse off than they had been under the red flag. No individual more memorably personified Russian antipathy to communism than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the writer who turned his horrific experiences inside Stalin's gulag into the defining novel of the Soviet era. And if Solzhenitsyn was a moral compass for Russian anti-communism, then his views on post-Soviet Russia offer pause for thought: "One might have imagined that things could not have got worse than the point to which Communism had brought...
...Microsoft, this was the kind of publicity you just can't buy. Not only did Redmond get to share a dais with the Justice Department -which is rather like Stalin vowing eternal friendship with Roosevelt to counter the Nazi menace - but they also had their name inextricably linked with the well-being of the Internet itself. This quote from Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is typical: "the Code Red worm may disrupt the Internet on a global scale ? the FBI urged owners of business-type servers to install a patch from Microsoft's website." When the world's in trouble...
...battle between the President and the media as a prime moment to score political points, especially with the presidential election less than a year-and-a-half away. Former President Kim Young Sam, a longtime and bitter rival of the current President, compared him to Hitler and Stalin and warned that the tax inquiry might be a precursor to a coup d'?tat to keep the President in power. So wild was the general level of anti-Kim rhetoric that lawmaker Lee broke ranks with his own party leaders and urged them to tone down the brimstone. " We shouldn...
...Burke: The Catholic Church was pushed underground during the Soviet era after they were banned by Stalin. So when it began to reemerge after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it began to demand the return of Church property that had been taken over by the Orthodox. And the tensions this created have been intense...
...only after Marshall's journey to Moscow in January 1947, where a private meeting with Joseph Stalin increased Marshall's anxiety about Europe's future, that he contemplated including foreign policy reforms in his Commencement address. When he proposed the idea to Dean Acheson, the Under Secretary of State, Acheson advised against it "on the ground that commencement speeches were a ritual to be endured without hearing...