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US-SR
In the title of his 1964 book, Andrei Amalrik asked: "Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984?" In fact it lasted all through the Reagan presidency, held together only by outside pressure. Then, just when you finally might have thought that it had gone for ever, it started to reappear on a different northern subcontinent.
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USSR
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US
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TASS
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NEWS AGENCY
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AP
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Pravda
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PROPAGANDA MEDIUM
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Fox News
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KGB
(Department of State Security)
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SECRET POLICE
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DHS
(Department of Homeland Security)
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Brezhnev
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EXECUTIVE
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Bush
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Brezhnev Doctrine
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FOREIGN POLICY
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Bush Doctrine
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East Europe freed from Hitler
to become a model of "socialism"
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LIBERATION
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Iraq freed from Hussein
to become a model of "democracy"
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Gulag
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PRISON CAMPS
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Gitmo
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Defeated Germany,
invaded Afghanistan.
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MILITARY HISTORY
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Defeated Germany,
invaded Afghanistan.
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Gorbachev
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FAILED REFORMER
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Obama
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Stalin's abortion bans
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REPRODUCTIVE REGULATION
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State-led abortion bans
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