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...east Germany of the '70S and '80s, Christiane (Katrin Sass) is a party-line do-gooder: dashing off imploring memos for better working conditions as she glances at her wall icon of Che Guevara. Her East Berlin neighbors may chafe under the drab dictatorship of the proletariat, but she believes. Then she suffers a severe heart attack and falls into a coma, regaining consciousness after eight months. A doctor urges Christiane's grown son Alex (Daniel Bruhl) to shield her from any further shocks. Just one problem: it's 1989, and the Wall has crumbled; communism is kaput...
Poor Bruce Cumings. Familiar with him? He’s the University of Chicago professor who recently came out with a literary apologia for the excesses of Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship. His timing was about as deft as Al Gore’s endorsement of Howard Dean...
...Because it is widely believed that Khan could not have acted without the army's knowledge, the proliferation scandal also raises the issue of whether military rule is desirable in Pakistan. I have for most of my life despised the idea of dictatorship, of citizens being told what is right for them by an unelected, unaccountable body. I have vivid memories, even a decade and a half later, of the disastrous policies initiated by General Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s, policies of Islamization, of news broadcasts in Arabic, intimidation of journalists, oppression of women...
...find myself feeling, perhaps shamefully, that I would like this scandal to pass quietly. Not because I am unaware of the horrors of nuclear war, the perils of dictatorship or the importance of truth. But because despite being aware of these things, I believe Pakistan needs its nuclear deterrent, I support Musharraf and I think a public inquiry is dangerous at this time in our history. We must cooperate with other countries and with the U.N. to shut down the proliferation network that has been allowed to develop in Pakistan. And we must stay the course in our pursuit...
...them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where a classmate from the University of Witwatersrand recalls her as a devout Catholic who attended early-morning Mass...