Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make daily commando raids into about half a dozen shops if I wanted get footage of food lines without waiting forever," he said. Because of these restrictions, most news programs in the early '80s used exterior scenes as background for broadcasts from the USSR, he added...
CULTURE SHOCK comes to the cinema in Dark Eyes, filmed in both the USSR and Italy. Director Nikita Mikhalkov is Russian, while his actors and their dialogue are Italian. Based on several short stories by Anton Chekhov, the film stars that mainstay of Italian cinema, Marcello Mastroianni, as a womanizer (what else?). Russian in outlook but quintessentially Italian in its characterization, Dark Eyes is a unique and almost dizzying blending of the two cultures from which it is drawn...
Prompted by Soviet policy of anti-semitism, Gulko and Achsharumova first attempted to emigrate from the USSR in 1979. At that time their request was denied...
ONCE UPON a time the USSR put new kinds of missiles in Eastern Europe to point at Western Europe. A President, who ate quiche, came up with a plan: NATO would put new missiles in Western Europe. If the Soviets would remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin Mary in those same circles. Try saying that about Poland of Cuba, and you begin to appreciate the ambiguities of Nicaragua...