Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...price tag on Lithuania is now about $34 billion dollars. That's what Gorbachev said that the Republic of Lithuania owes the Soviet Union for investments in factories, roads, nuclear reactors and other improvements introduced by Joseph Stalin and the Red Army Civic Improvement Association...
...purest specimens of the spongelike species that plunged into extinction is Andrei Gromyko, the perennial Foreign Minister who worked with every Soviet leader from Stalin to Gorbachev and conveniently died last year as he fell from grace. Revealingly, his book is relentlessly unrevealing. Of the dermatologist's nightmare that was Stalin's pockmarked face, Gromyko writes, "I don't recall ever seeing any" scars...