Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again the task before Gorbachev is to enhance his power by co-opting the demands for radical change while at the same time persuading conservative foot draggers to join his cause. But to contain the rising tide of dissent in the Soviet Union, now bubbling up through many unofficial groups and opposing factions within the party itself, before it reaches the flood levels prevailing in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party will have to demonstrate that it deserves the support of the people without relying on the crutch of Article...
...When Gorbachev came to power he found he was presiding over a military superpower and a Third World economic power. His clients in Cuba, Viet Nam, Ethiopia, Angola and Nicaragua required huge subsidies. Afghanistan was costing lives as well as money. In Eastern Europe the explosive forces of dissent were building dangerously. The stagnant Soviet economy was falling further and further behind the West. Gorbachev's only option was to reform at home and retrench abroad...
Already the government is betraying distressingly fascist leanings. Strict, vaguely worded laws curbing dissent were rammed through the legislature last week. Death squads are on the rise; evidence collected by human-rights groups strongly implicates the army in the killing of six Jesuit priests three weeks ago. Predictably, the criminal investigation of the Jesuits' slaying -- in contrast to the official probe of the SA-7s' origin -- has got nowhere...
PRAGUE--The Czechoslavakian government said yesterday it will begin dismantling its fortifications along the border with Austria, and lawmakers recommended abolishing some of the toughest laws used to crack down on dissent...
...recently as a month ago, residents spoke only furtively with foreigners, while a pervasive net of state control silenced dissent and enforced Marxist indoctrination of schoolchildren. Last week the opposition New Forum was sifting through official invitations to speak at local factories, while at a "Democracy Kiosk" outside the philharmonic hall, crowds gathered to scribble down addresses and meeting dates for everything from feminist films to university talks on "the collapse of Communism." The Academixer cabaret theater, famed for its political satire, revamps its sell-out show Who's to Blame? every night to keep up with developments. Quips artistic...