Word: paranoia
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...related to this war memory is Russia's intense desire to keep Germany split. In a sense, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe is justified in the Russian view as a "buffer zone," with E. Germany serving as the forward bustion between the homeland and any future aggression. Four, even paranoia, of a reunited Germany, backed by the United States, rules Russian policy concerning Europe. The Soviets therefore viewed the talks as a means of essentially ratifying the postwar occupational boundaries, and reducing the U.S. European presence in support of West Germany...
...there is hope, U.S. officials have recently indicated that some sort of compromise on the negotiations is not out of the question. If Soviet paranoia can be assuaged by good-faith negotiations, perhaps a settlement can be had. And if the West can start to redress the conventional imbalance in Europe, the nuclear question would certainly become easier to handle, if not to solve...
Washington's game plan is simple: keep tensions with the Sandinistas high to increase their paranoia and hence their authoritarian impulses, and do nothing to help them develop more democratic institutions. The visa delays fits neatly into the latter half of the Administration's strategy...
...motivating force within the family. The Isaacsons' trial and execution, depicted without any clarification of their guilt or innocence, serves to focus attention upon questions of the validity of their political activism and the validity of a judicial system which was so easily swayed by the social paranoia of the Cold...
...bureaucratized their revolution, had betrayed Marxism, were traitors to Communism ? revisionists! If the Soviets had succumbed to bureaucracy, might not the same thing happen in China? Thus, a growing suspicion that revisionism and class enemies might be infecting even his own party. On went Hu, describing the paranoia growing. Mao had disliked intellectuals ever since he had been a $30-a-month librarian in Peking in his youth. "The more knowledge you give the people," said Mao, "the more you hold back revolutionary thought." Or, "The more books people read, the more foolish they become." So Mao let loose...