Word: unfreedom
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...left radical extremist National Bolshevik Party (NBP), led by a flamboyant writer Eduard Limonov. While the liberal groups call for a return to democratic reform, the violence-prone NBP calls for a revolution. Not unlike the Soviet dissidents of old, they're united by their country's growing unfreedom...
...Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle the 1,000-year-old Russian paradigm of unfreedom...
When Ronald Reagan declared that the unfreedom imposed by communism was simply unsustainable and that it should be not appeased or accommodated, but instead forced--by the power and will of free peoples--into the ash heap of history, he was ridiculed and patronized as a simpleton. Clark Clifford famously called him an amiable dunce. The amiable dunce went on to win the cold...
...bicycle because it adds to my freedom,” Lachelier said. “I find that cars are just as much a source of unfreedom as a source of freedom...
...wait. How did we win the cold war? We fought and won the cold war, and thus liberated tens of millions of people, precisely because we prudently, albeit reluctantly, tolerated unfreedom in certain places. Why? In order to win the larger battle for freedom on the global scale. Today we "coddle" Musharraf of Pakistan, Mubarak of Egypt, the Saudi princes. Yesterday we coddled Pinochet of Chile, Marcos of the Philippines, the Shah of Iran, Mobutu of Zaire and a train of South Vietnamese generals...