Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultraindividualism," meaning in Deng's words, "opposition to the leadership of the party." In the spring, Bai Hua, a well-known writer, was viciously attacked by the Liberation Army Daily for a screenplay called Bitter Love that, the paper charged, showed "hatred for our party and our socialist motherland." More ominously, say Chinese sources, Deng has named at least ten writers who will be singled out in the months ahead as targets of a national campaign of "criticism and self-criticism...
...love your motherland. But does your motherland love you?" the distraught young woman asks her father, as she helplessly watches him being victimized by fanatical Red Guards. That snippet of mildly unpatriotic dialogue comes at the conclusion of Unrequited Love, a new cinematic potboiler about the Cultural Revolution that brought turmoil to China in the late 1960s. The heroine's plaintive appeal would not ordinarily seem to be politically explosive, but last week it was singled out for official opprobrium in a stepped-up curtailment of political and artistic freedom in China. In a more threatening manifestation of Peking...
...voice flared with anger, and he made a spitting gesture. He explained that traditionally the graves of fallen Soviet soldiers have been inscribed DIED FOR THE MOTHERLAND. But not for Afghanistan. "Do you know what they put on their tombstones? Four words: DIED FOR INTERNATIONAL DUTY! What is that? I do not know what 'international duty' is. But this is what they put on the graves." And he made the contemptuous spitting gesture again...
...without the boycott, the Soviets and their satellites would have put on an overwhleming display of athletic prowess since they prepared their athletes with all the care taken before military adventures. Moreover, with or without the boycott, Soviet citizens would have picked up conflicting signals on relations between the Motherland and the West...
...Olympic hosts are worried not only about what sort of nonsports material will be beamed to those outside the motherland, but also about propagandizing within their borders. For months they have been warning citizens about disruptions being plotted by the CIA, "Zionists and fascists." Only last week the party paper, Sovietskaya Rossiya, charged that U.S. and NATO intelligence services had set up special schools to train dozens of agents to visit Moscow disguised as tourists with "anti-Soviet material" hidden in false-bottomed suitcases and in their underwear...