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...children. But most of the references will be lost on the film’s younger audiences, and reminders of the film’s political subtext—the aliens’ collection of UFO artifacts includes none other than the Sputnik satellite, complete with “USSR?? imprinted in Russian—are frequent enough to be irritating to adult viewers...
...Cold War climate facilitated academic competition among countries, due to the USSR??s Oct. 1957 release of the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into space. But changes in the landscape of higher education suggested more than just a race against Russia, and the 1957-1958 academic year saw discussion of a range of reforms that reflected shifting ideas about what education should look like and what its role should...
Updike’s staff retaliated by kidnapping The Crimson’s president and managing editor and demanding back the copper bird as ransom. Eventually he released the newspaper leaders, who, instead of returning the ibis, presented it to the USSR??s deputy representative to the United Nations as a peace offering...
Walesa, for those who have forgotten the timeline of the USSR??s fall, worked in the Gdansk shipyards when Poland was still a Soviet satellite state. He became famous organizing labor into the Solidarity union, after he took part in the Gdansk shipyard riots in 1980. Solidarity was the first labor union of its kind in a Communist country, gaining millions of supporters. For his work he received a Nobel peace prize in 1983, and is widely credited with helping to break down the Soviet system in Poland. When it did finally fall, Walesa was elected president...
...change the entire calculus of American interests in the Middle East. Russia and the former Soviet republics have large oil reserves that are only now being developed by major oil companies. The Soviet Union extracted 12.5 MBD at its height. Since then, the oil fields of Russia and the USSR??s successor states have been hampered by corruption and mismanagement. However, as oil industry analysts Edward L. Morse and James Richard argue in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Russia may once again produce enormous quantities of oil. They argue that Russia will eventually be able...
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