Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is used only as a "fagade" to preserve the power of the leadership and a totalitarian regime. Solzhenitsyn, he contends, makes the same mistake in attributing ideological motives to the leaders of Communist China, whom Sakharov regards as "no less pragmatic than our own." He also thinks that Solzhenitsyn has "overdramatized" the threat of China to Russia, since for some time to come Peking is unlikely to acquire...
...Portugal were the only NATO nations that viewed matters from the same perspective as the U.S. The United States claimed to be interested in the security of NATO. Yet NATO is ostensibly designed to safeguard freedom and democracy, concepts that didn't jibe with the interests of a totalitarian regime. The coup violated both NATO's humanitarian principles and its strategic military commitments. The defense of its Mediterranean wing certainly wasn't bolstered in 1967, when one fourth of the Greek armed forces was purged by the Colonels...
...history of the world. The time span since 1949 [when the Communists took power] has not been long enough for the population to lose its high degree of fundamental industriousness (which is higher than ours today), its tenacity and submissiveness. And it is firmly in the grip of a totalitarian system no whit less vigilant than ours. Its army and population will not surrender en masse with Western good sense, even when surrounded and beaten. Every soldier and every civilian will fight to the last bullet, the last breath...
...suffered, described and made live in his works. It is a long way from the city bookstore to the taiga of the Siberian north or the dim, stinking cells packed with starved and wretched men; from the quiet classrooms to the stark realities of a hunted existence in a totalitarian state. "Oh, freedom-loving 'leftist' thinkers of the West!" Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago." "Oh, leftist Laborites! Oh, progressive American, German and French students! For you, all this counts for little. For you, my entire book amounts to nothing. You will only understand it all when they bellow...
Schlesinger sees no contradiction in the U.S.'s arming itself with new weapons at the same time that it seeks to disarm through agreement with Moscow. Russia, he says, "is still a totalitarian state" and must be dealt with "in a cautious process." He further explains: "It is necessary for the U.S. to participate in the maintenance of a worldwide equilibrium of forces, and this requires the American people to do what to some seems to be inconsistent: to pursue detente?an alleviation of political tensions?and to maintain an adequate defense capability. We want to have a relaxation...