Word: totalitarianisms
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...never realized how beautiful it was," she says of her new land. While she feels that the training Soviet musicians receive is superior, Davidovich believes American orchestras are better than their Russian counterparts, and she praises the emphasis on chamber music in the U.S. Like other emigres from totalitarian countries, however, she sees a darker side to the many liberties Americans enjoy. "For me, freedom has meant I am free to work and go where I please, when I want. But America knows another side of freedom that can lead to many bad things. The problems with crime are horrible...
...struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime. "It was a dark day for freedom," Reagan scolded, "when, after the Soviet Union spent $500 million to impose Communism in Nicaragua, the U.S. Congress could not support a meager $14 million for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua who were opposed to that totalitarian government...
Then, as his peroration, Reagan sought to make universal the contest between democracy and totalitarianism of any sort. "The struggle for freedom is not complete, for much of the world is still cast in totalitarian darkness." Invoking John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" pronouncement of 1963, Reagan continued: "Today freedom-loving people around the world must say, 'I am a Berliner. I am a Jew in a world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast...
...activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors who had to be stopped, just as the Nazis were. Whether they were justified in this view is a question of history. The Vietnam War was misguided, wasteful in some cases conducted with criminal brutality, and in the end essentially futile, but in no way can anyone compare...