Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country where, in 1996, 50 percent of Russians supported Chechen independence, the current approval ratings represent more than a drastic shift in public opinion. Instead, they represent the return of Soviet style tactics of governmental deception, press censorship and ethnic intolerance--all of which are used to maintain support for the Chechen conflict. They undermine the Russian government's claim that it is just following democratic precepts by following the will of the people...
...great family of second-bests--of institutions that almost tasted the fruits of glory but came up just short. Yale is the Salieri to our Mozart, the American Basketball Association to our National Basketball Association, the Betamax to our VHS. Yale is much like the now deceased Soviet Union--a place that had lots of tanks and other superficial signs of strength, but that, on the inside, was really a rotting carcass of mediocrity...
...meteoroids in this picture share a former Soviet leader's first name. What are they called...
DeNunzio joins an already outstanding assistant coaching staff that includes former Soviet National Coach Granit Taropin and former Harvard All-American Andy McNerney...
...unorthodox, even revolutionary thesis, at a time when most scholars assumed that Chinese communism was an outgrowth of the Soviet empire...