USSR Russia

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~ USSR  see> RUSSIA  RUTHENIA
        USSR or UNION of SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
  A EUPHEMISM FOR A RUSSIAN EMPIRE UNDER COMMUNISM REPLACED
  BY A NEW "RUSSIAN FEDERATION"
  lit+ several reviews analyze the COLLAPSE or
       IMPLOSION of the USSR                   sug> EXPLODE
  MANY EXPERTS NOTE                            sug> EXPLOIT
  RUSSIAN NATIONALISM MASQUERADING UNDER       sug> NATION
  MARXISM and OTHER NEW CLICHES                sug> NOTION
  note a comment by LENIN in 1917              sug> BOLSHEVIK
  " SCRATCH COMMUNISTS AND YOU WILL FIND       sug> DOGMA
    RUSSIAN CHAUVINISTS ... "                  see  CHAUVIN
  note ANTICOMMUNIST RUSSIAN PUNDITS and       sug> GURU
       MANY "DEMOCRATIC" RUSSIANS SEE          sug> POPULIST
  NO CONFLICT OF A RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY           see> NATIONALISM
  DENYING NATIONAL RIGHTS OF OTHER NATIONS     sug> RUSSIFICATION
  lit+ Vladimir NOBOKOV [#] considers          see> GOGOL
       UKRAINIAN A RUSSIAN DIALECT             sug> PATOIS
  Alexander SOLZHENITSYN [#] in                sug> GULAG
  "THE RUSSIAN QUESTION " published            sug> SNAG
  by Farrar Straus & Giroux 1995 defines       sug> INTRUDE
  the ideal of "GREATER" RUSSIA in terms       sug> EMPIRE
  reminiscent of HITLER'S IDEAS DEFINING       sug> UMPIRE
  A "GREATER" GERMANY                          sug> IMPOSE
  SOLZHENITSYN STATES THAT RUSSIA IS           see> RUTHENIA
    ... RUSSIA UKRAINE AND BELARUS             sug> STRATEGY
    ... AND KAZAKHSTAN "                       sug> ENERGY
  note similarities with "JEWISH QUESTION"     sug> ZEAL
  hx>  THE USSR STARTED AS A "BOLSHEVIK" RUSSIA
       IT BECAME USSR IN PART BECAUSE THE TERM BOLSHEVIK
  ACQUIRED AN OVERTONE OF BRUTE CRUDE CRIMINALITY
  THE BOLSHEVIK EXPERIMENT WAS IMPOSED BY FORCE AND FRAMED
  ON A BLIND FAITH THAT ROMANTIC FOREIGN IDEAS AND IDEALS
  MOSTLY TAKEN FROM ENGLISH AND GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS DEFINED
  A PATH TO CREATE A JUST RUSSIAN SOCIETY AFTER THE "OLD"
  SOCIETY WAS THOROUGHLY "LIQUIDATED"        sug> HOLOCAUST
  lit+ in his autobiography Bertrand RUSSELL [#] noted
       " ... THE TIME I SPENT IN RUSSIA WAS
  ONE OF CONTINUALLY INCREASING NIGHTMARE ...
  A SENSE OF UTTER HORROR WHICH OVERWHELMED ME ...
  CRUELTY  POVERTY  SUSPICION  PERSECUTION ...
  IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ONE WOULD HEAR SHOTS AND
  KNOW THAT IDEALISTS WERE BEING KILLED IN PRISON ...
  THERE WAS A HYPOCRITICAL PRETENSE OF EQUALITY ...
  lit+ {in the USSR}
       " MURDER IS NOW CARRIED OUT
         AT THE EXPRESS GOVERNMENT ORDERS ...
       MURDER HAS  SO TO SPEAK
       NOW BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED ... " in "KBG" by
       J BARRON [#] citing B STASHINSKY [#]
  lit+ " CAN ONE ... VIEW SUCH AN UNPRECEDENTED CALAMITY
         WITH DISPASSION? " asked Richard PIPES [#] in his
  "A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION" 1995
   Alfred a Knopf abridged version of his previous larger book
  cont> in addenda under development see> ~& RUSSIA ~& UKRAINE
  sug> GULAG  BERIA  STALIN  SOLZHENITSIN  SAKHAROV  BABIJ YAR