Word: pavlik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report any suspicious behavior by neighbors, particularly if it involved contact with foreigners. Former Chinese Red Guards say most of the targets of the Cultural Revolution were actually victims of petty local vendettas. In the Soviet Union informing on one's fellow man was taken so far that Pavlik Morozov became a national hero for ratting on his father. And all across the socialist world workers were repeatedly assured that they need not fear -- that no matter how little they worked, no one would live better than they...
None of this discourages those who keep returning for treatments. "Nothing lasts forever," sighs Nicholas Pavlik, 48, an apparel store owner in New York City who has undergone injections every six months for the past four years. "But when you look better, you feel better." Not exactly a sentiment worthy of Shakespeare, but still one full of human truth...
...landmass of 8.6 million sq. mi. and a population of 271 million, the Soviet Union would present logistical problems for even the most efficient police organization. The KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful largely because Soviet citizens police one another. Schoolchildren are taught to revere Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old who was murdered by enraged villagers during the forced collectivization of farms in the early 1930s after he informed local Communist authorities that his father was sheltering more prosperous peasants. Few Soviets today would be likely to follow young Pavlik's example, but there...