Sentences with phrase «by all communist regimes»

Moreover, there are no museums testifying to the evils of communism, no memorials to communism's victims, and no Gulag camps maintained as reminders to new generations of the crimes committed by Communist regimes.

According to Nicolas Werth and Jean - Louis Margolin, Courtois went too far in his estimate of the numbers killed by all Communist regimes — over 100 million, he approximated.

Pope Francis will show solidarity with people affected by the communist regime when he visits Albania... More

Pope Francis will show solidarity with people affected by the communist regime when he visits Albania later this month.

The same citizen was, beyond dispute, actively engaged in encouraging espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, and to his dying day advocated the revolutionary replacement of the American government by a Communist regime.

This barrier was not erected by communist regimes, however, but by the West.

has been approved for viewing by the communist regime, I suspect even they recognized this movie for what it really is: Violent escapism with a light and fluffy topping of divine platitudes unlikely to leave anyone with a craving for organized religion.

Growing up in Nazi Germany, witnessing the horrors of war, and being oppressed by the Communist regime in East Germany — the early life of Gerhard Richter was everything but happy and carefree.

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Even a casual look at how a regime dominated by fanatical communist ideologues could be converted into one led by consummate pragmatists should be especially useful for Trump.

In his samizdat essay of 1978, «The Power of the Powerless,» Havel argued that the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia exerted power not just through brute force but even more pervasively through lies that were reinforced by citizens who did not believe the lies but nevertheless went along with them.

This view holds that these are the result of age - old enmities, which were held under control by the various Communist regimes and thus for a time, at least in....

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

John Paul II well understood, both from his rootedness in biblically based teaching and from his experience of living under both the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian regimes, why both of these evil regimes were so threatened by the very presence of the Jewish people and the Catholic Church in the world.

American hostility to the communist regime was clearly visible in the bitter opposition for more than two decades to its recognition by our government and to its inclusion in the UN.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

Pastor Tokes had hard words for Reformed and Orthodox leaders who collaborated with the regime, and for Western church leaders who supported Communist oppression by their silence, or worse.

One of the bright lessons emerging from 1989 is that Communist regimes are kept in place only by raw force.

«These people,» Solzhenitsyn remarks, «who had experienced on their own hides twenty - four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: That nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self - styled Soviet regime.»

The collapse of the Tsarist regime and its eventual replacement by the communist soviet rule dealt disastrous blows to all of the older religions in Russia.

The only way you can not lag long term and be a communist regime is to not have a competing free system with higher productivity driven by better incentive structures.

We also have a duty to support the struggle of the Tibetan people whose culture is being slowly eradicated by the authoritarian Chinese communist regime.

Obama's opening to Cuba, negotiated in secret with the help of the Vatican and which culminated in a presidential trip to Havana in March 2016, was regarded by his administration as one of its signature foreign policy achievements, ending an embargo of more than a half century, which had failed to produce a softening of the communist regime.

To emphasise the point, the mayor then quoted a slogan used by Chairman Mao during the period in which the Communist Party of China briefly encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the regime.

Very true, and the irony is that contemporary Russians are tricked by Putin to admire their communist past when in fact 1/6 of the russia's population was killed by their psychopathic regime for no reason other than to insinuating terror on the remaining 5/6 survivors.

Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall came down, as the Communist regimes of eastern Europe fell one by one.

His opinion was codified by the National Intelligence Estimate of September 15, 1954, which stated, «Soviet leaders probably envision: (a) the elimination of every world power center capable of competing with the USSR; (b) the spread of communism to all parts of the world; and (c) Soviet domination over all other communist regimes.»

By tracking the large influx of Russian mathematicians into the United States following the Communist regime's demise, they found a number of significant effects.

Liman and his screenwriter, Gary Spinelli (Chaos Walking, Stash House), apparently play fast and loose with the facts of Seal's life («dramatic license» in case you're wondering), but hew relatively close to the general contours and parameters of that same life, following Seal as he settles in Mena, Arkansas at the behest of his careerist handler, expands his drug - smuggling business with Schafer's willful ignorance as an ally, and turns a massive property (also bestowed by a generous federal government) into a training ground for the Contra rebels who fought against the Communist - allied Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in the «80s.

Otilia, played with silent intensity by Anamaria Marinca, has agreed to help her flaky roommate, Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), procure an abortion, which is illegal under the communist regime.

It is the story that the 1960s author is told (by the older Zero, played by F. Murray Abraham), while staying in the gloriously - rendered faded grandeur of a baroque hotel gone to seed under a communist regime, that forms the bulk of the film.

After one of his comrades is killed by Communist operatives, he makes his peace with the regime and begins a meteoric rise to the pinnacle of the chess world, with all the perquisites and soul - destroying compromises that choice entails.

By chance, I meet one Cuban who is willing to discuss the communist regime.

In 1953, the family escaped the Communist regime of the German Democratic Republic, arriving in Düsseldorf by way of West Berlin.

As they were developing and maturing under a harsh Eastern German communist regime, Winker and his colleagues were seen as dissidents by the authorities and were watched by the secret police.

When he was a child he lived the Chinese Cultural Revolution of Communist regime leaded by Mao Tse Tung.

Under the East German communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents.

Other works include Workspace (2016), a wooden, scale model of an artist's studio (look for mini, dollhouse - like objects such as tools and artworks) and Origin Unknown (2016), a concrete sculpture which is made of hammer - like forms and which the gallery's Stella Reinhold - Rudas noted is influenced by African naive art and the communist regime of the artist's childhood.

Communist regimes murdered 140 + million people in the 20th century, by my estimate (and yes, I ran demographic models), and they were no better on the environment than capitalist regimes.

So station histories — documents that had survived World War II, the Communist Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, carefully preserved by diligent clerks — were lost or destroyed by climate scientists under the IPCC regime.

Putatively governed by all of the countries that comprise the United Nations (which includes military dictatorships and Communist regimes with rather different expectations in this regard), it's really governed by no one.

As the Iron Curtin descended across Europe, many took it to be a «how to» manual being used by the Iron - Fisted, Communist regimes that ran the Soviet Bloc.

Privacy rights are a particularly sensitive and emotional issue in Germany after decades of state surveillance carried out by the Nazi regime and later in Communist East Germany.

As a native of China, Wu's public persona has been impacted by bitcoin's east - west culture clash, one that has pitted Western bitcoin developers brought up in a democracy, against bitcoin's miners, often business people, hailing from one of the world's few powerful communist regimes.