Sentences with phrase «under communism»

«As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism.»

I was married to an East German woman who grew up and lived under communism for over 35 years.

This despite the fact that, looking back on the Cold War, its General Secretary, Joan Brown Campbell, recently confessed to the Washington Times, «We did not understand the depth of the suffering of Christians under communism, and we failed to really cry out against the Communist oppression.»

You have only to look at the things that have happened and continue to happen under communism to see that an atheist state is not so very desirable.

But it's no less present in the 1947 testimony of Alice Rosenbaum (better known by her American name, Ayn Rand) to the House Un-American Activities Committee that Russians under communism never smile («If they do, it is privately and accidentally.

Trapped by mortgages for apartments built on barren steppe under communism, residents of Sayanogorsk, one of a string of towns dominated by Rusal, have few options if a loss of customers for its aluminium leads the firm to cut jobs.

They know that accommodation to state interests can destroy the spiritual freedom of the Church, as happened when Peter the Great abolished the patriarchate and effectively made the Church a department of the state — and as happened again under communism.

Despite the deep secularization of Russian society under communism, Kirill is confident that re-Christianization will succeed.

According to this version of historical remembrance, Russians will experience national renewal today if they honor the Church's great sacrifices under communism.

Born in 1949, Legutko is a Polish philosopher and member of the European Parliament who was a dissident under communism and a high minister in the new Polish liberal - democratic state.

A society made over by totalitarian edict, as in much of the life under communism today, would not be the kingdom of God.

The experience of persecution under communism has taught the Moscow Patriarchate to value visible unity at almost any price.

Though the church consistently backed the state under communism, it clearly did so under duress and the threat of increased persecution.

It is impossible for the outsider to understand the depth of the humiliation endured by the church during the 70 years of its captivity under communism.

He had lived under communism in Poland.

We watched that ideal die a horrible death under communism.

After the heartbreaking legacy of bulk wine production under communism - I have a family story here too with my step - grandfather, Hungary has exploded with excellent wines available everywhere.

We might ask whether constitutional niceties under communism matter for today.

Democratic Western Europe became closely linked to North America and Africa, while Eastern Europe was largely isolated from global trade and suffered economically under communism.

This remarkable four - part documentary series provides intimate insight into Putin's personal and professional lives, from his childhood under communism, to his rise to power, his relations with four U.S. presidents, and his surprising takes on U.S. - Russian relations today.

While the West's dance halls are roaring with The Rolling Stones» «(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction» (released in 1965), the workers under communism still dance to grandmother's polkas or to the tamed jazz rhythms of the fifties.

In Mila Turajlic's doc The Other Side of Everything, a Serbian apartment divided under communism is a symbol of a difficult past lingering in the present.

Tsukiyama gently envelops the reader into the quiet sadness that permeates the entire household while weaving in the multiple hardships the family faces under communism.

The show highlights Kantarovsky's experience living under communism as a child, in the waning years of the Soviet Union.

On Christians under communism, ZENIT, April 9, 2000.

Especially prominent are politicized «language rituals,» also a characteristic of life under communism; «the more participants, the noisier the political rites, the more impressive seemed to be the performance of the entire political system.»

Under communism, citizens knew «they had to sever, if only verbally, all links with tradition, and to fill the empty space in their souls with the content of the socialist creed.»

Under communism, all people are considered equal and are provided for equally, regardless of their contributions to the economy or to society.

Under communism the church was decimated, and the majority of people were atheists, which is rare to find today.

Man, under communism and socialism, forces man to give the fruit of their labor for the alleged purposes of feeding, housing and clothing the needy (but look how that is so out of control and so much abused).

Under communism the church was severely persecuted and many ended up in the gulag, in psychiatric hospitals and dead for being dissidents, i.e. true martyrs, who paid with their very lives.

As some of you know I was not born in the US but in a small eastern Europe country and the first 10 years of my life we were under communism.

«For Merkel, who spent the first 35 years of her life under communism, far from being an expression of the wish to unite, as it was in 1989, the phrase was now being used to divide.

But in spite of the fact that she was really a very beautiful girl I was too shy at that time to get involved, and apart from that, I already received a visa to America (which was extremely hard to get at that time as Poland was under communism).

Under communism, it's just the opposite.»

Taking place in a disused bunker, the drama is an all too realistic portrayal of life under communism, with big brother a grim reality for the populace of that time.

But both knew life under communism, and both have an unblinking relationship with the Holocaust, a catastrophe they simply will not ignore, not even in the peace of their studios.

This civic - mindedness of a trader's city also expressed itself under communism where Leipzig was the center of popular resistance that led to Die Wende.