Sentences with phrase «under communism in»

He had lived under communism in Poland.

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When it wasn't investigating crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Director J. Edgar Hoover kept busy trying to suppress the spread of communism in the Unites States.

As for the conditions of Chinese workers etc that some have blamed on multinationals like Apple (and thus by proxy on Jobs), I thank my lucky stars I was born in the West and not in China, but does anybody really believe they were better off slaving in a rice field for 12 hours a day under hardline communism?

It has been estimated that in less than the past 100 years, governments under the banner of communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40,472,000 to 259,432,000 human lives.

We have been under the threat of socialism and communism that have proven to be complete failures in all but a few countries that retained historic family bonds.

In this view the idealistic Soviet experiment under Lenin was rudely distorted by Stalin, whose brutal character and methods discredited communism.

ANTI WALL - STREET PROTESTS ARE ALSO KNOWN UNDER ZIONIST «TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP» IN AMERICA FROM HANDS OF WHITE AMERICANS TO SO CALLED «MINORITIES» (COMMUNISM).

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.»

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.

As Limbaugh notes, Benedict's predecessor, the late Pope John Paul II, was a noted foe of communism, after living under its oppressions in his native Poland.

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.

Arendt is not speaking of German facism or Russian communism in general but of the particular forms of government developed under Stalin and Hitler.

Even as they complained about his leadership, Cox was off into new territories, raising respectful questions about the necessary role of play, ritual, and imagination, questions about the undeniable strength of the popular devotions of stubborn peasants — in Latin America under the traditional power of the landlords, and among the shipbuilders and electricians of Poland, who had the foot of communism on their necks.

The words «under god» were added to the pledge in the 1950s to fight communism.

Royal writes that «many people in... many different countries, even under differing regimes like Nazism and communism, have reported similar experiences.»

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.

There will be a type of law, there will not be much more freedom than there exists under capitalism, unlike what will be the case in communism - the stateless, classless society.

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).

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 presenIn 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 presenin the present.

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.

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.

This thirty - something generation grew up under communism, witnessed the breakdown and collapse of the system, coupled with experiencing the violent invasion of consumer culture in an indigenous society.

«Animal Farm: A Fairy Tale» tells of the woes when homo sapiens themselves took control of government in the manner of communism under Stalin.

noun — The stage in Marxist - Leninist theory intermediate between capitalism and communism, in which collective ownership of the economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat has not yet been successfully achieved