Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense policy includes a caveat: the West must be prepared for the danger that Gorbachev will be overthrown; he might be replaced by a retrograde Soviet leadership that will once again -- that is the key phrase: once again -- threaten the rest of the world with military intimidation if not conquest...
...communism. Many card-carrying party intellectuals in Moscow, particularly of the younger generation, admit that perestroika too is a euphemism; it suggests fixing something that is broken, but it really means scrapping something that never worked, even as a blueprint for Soviet society, not to mention for world conquest...