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...called "dole" was actually military aid by the U.S. and USSR designed to rip the country apart in bloody civil war. But this is conveniently forgotten, as it is inconsistent with our picture of dependent Third Worlders...
...comes down to "Sanjay's Economic Theory: Tupperware is so important to us," he says, "not only because it appeases our anal retentive roommates, but also because it is representative of the American capitalistic spirit which ultimately led the United States through the Cold War while the USSR collapsed...
...subsequent dumping of contaminants near Chelyabinsk, 900 miles east of Moscow, is now thought to have released pollution totaling 1.2 billion curies, a unit measure of contamination. That compares with about 3 million curies from the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Says Murray Feshbach, co-author of Ecocide in the USSR: "The new evidence of widespread nuclear pollution is so incredible, it's hard to believe...
Long lines. A ruined economy. ChernobyI. Everyone knows about the problems of the ex-USSR...
FIRST, A BIT of bell history. The Lowell House bells were a gift from a former U.S. ambassador to the USSR when the house was built in 1930. They originally hung in the Donailov Monastery in Russia and were slated to be melted down into scrap metal before being saved by the philanthropic ambassador...