Word: vassalization
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...introducing their own rules if they gain power," the President said of the Communists recently. That's right, says Valentin Kuptsov, first deputy chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: "The choice could not be greater. We will determine whether Russia is turned completely into a Western vassal controlled by the U.S. or reacquires its status as an independent, great power...
Only two decades have gone by since Germany's great victory in World War II. It is 1964, and a vassal Germanic empire unites Europe from England almost to the Urals. It's true that war has sputtered on endlessly against what remains of the Soviet Union and that anti-Nazi terrorists at home have provoked repeated crackdowns. Still, why does the Fatherland seem shabby and dispirited...
...their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine but has a Russian majority. "Until we have independence, the Crimea will always be a vassal of Kiev," says Antonina Alekseyeva, a pro- Russian demonstrator in Simferopol. "All lies," retorts Nikolai Filipovich, an ethnic Ukrainian standing a few steps away...
Precinct 4: Tobin School, Vassal Lane entrance...
...rare talks to the press, Milosevic recalls how the Nazi vassal Independent State of Croatia slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbs during World War II, and insists that Serbs are facing a similar threat today. Those memories are particularly painful in the Serb-dominated regions of Croatia where today's fighting goes on. But sometimes they are harnessed to chimeras. Says Serbian Vice President Budimir Kosutic, appointed by Milosevic just last month: "The Croatians and the Germans behind them want to make a new state in the old borders of Austria-Hungary...