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When Shevardnadze arrived at the Stalin-gothic Foreign Ministry on Smolensky Square, he treated it as a candidate for cleanup. After 28 years under the proprietorship of dour-visaged Andrei Gromyko, the ministry badly needed perestroika and glasnost. Within a year Shevardnadze replaced nine of the 12 deputy ministers, instituted a daily press briefing, and created departments for disarmament and economic relations with the West...
Gorbachev and a whole generation of Sovietpoliticians who grew up under Stalin and now fillthe highest echelons of Soviet politics also don'tsee the humor in all this...
Many people oppose Senator Helms because of his alleged advocation of censorship. ACT-UP's murderous threat advocates the ultimate form of censorship, one practiced by Stalin, Hitler and enemies of the people throughout history in order to supress the free expression of views different from their...
...Ottomans -- whose name came from the founding chieftain, Osman -- governed many of the same territories the Kremlin sought to dominate when Joseph Stalin expanded the bounds of Soviet power after World War II. At the zenith of the empire, in the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the 16th century, the Turks controlled most of present-day Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia. Parts of the U.S.S.R. were also Ottoman possessions: the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, as well as the Caucasus, which include the strife-torn Soviet republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan...
Both the men's and women's teams from Yale assumed the role of the overaggressive Stalin, leaving Harvard and Princeton wondering how they had let the Elis get the better of them...