On Dissidents and Madness: From The Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the "Soviet Union" of Vladimir Putin.
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not by me. A comparison between Barack Obama and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is suggested by a blogger at Crooks and Liars , using this graphic to attack Obama's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to help prop up a Communist military regime as part of the Soviet's longstanding goal of dominating Afghanistan as a gateway to the...
World of Pablo (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Good reason to sleep and wake up early. From Jaunted.com photo: Image astoraut In an Interstellar Burst, Leonid Meteor Shower to Pass Earth on Tuesday November 14, 2009 at 3:02 PM | by Victor Ozols | 0 Comments If you find yourself outdoors this Tuesday, November 17, 2009 , do yourself a favor and look up . In the right place under the right conditions, you just might be a witness to the Leonid...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
On 13th November 1968, the soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev made a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party reiterating the new foreign policy of the USSR. This policy first appeared in a September issue of the newspaper Pravda in an article entitled “Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries” written by Sergei Kovalev. Known...
Queerty (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... repaint those murals, including the "fraternal" (read: non gay) smooch between Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev and East Germany's leader Erich Honecker. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Art , berlin wall , Dmitri Vrubel , Germany
Communities Dominate Brands (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
"There is nothing more practical, than a good theory." - Leonid Brezhnev (1977) Welcome to this series of blogs about mobile as a mass media channel. I will use this series of blogs, to compare and contrast mobile as the...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Obama seems destined to repeat the errors made by Soviet and U.S. leaders on the eve on the first Afghan war. By DAVID MORRIS StarTribune Last update: December 3, 2009 It is fitting that President Obama announced his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan on the 30th anniversary of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's decision to do the same. The two events are joined at the hip. In 1978,...
Freewill Applicator (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... and Lorraine Graham up from San Diego--I was thrilled to see all of them, and to chat about Leonid Brezhnev (whose picture was up on the wall--part of the set for the play currently being produced at the space) and Paul de Man and Caucasian Conceptualism (as in Conceptual Art being produced in the Caucasus Mountains--Georgia and Armenia and environs). The reading was by John Sakkis...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... As a showcase for the foreign-policy thinking of Western governments, the GMF event looked like a Leonid Brezhnev-era butcher shop. There wasn't much in the glass cases, and what there was, did not seem especially appetizing. That is not the fault of GMF, one of the premier venues for policy vetting, but of its suppliers, the NATO governments. The GMF focuses on Atlantic issues (it...
Coyote Crossing (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... the bacon and beans they got a can with a label that I don’t know what it means they got the Leonid Brezhnev they got uranium ore they got the todd-a-ler diapers that I don’t wear anymore they got the frozen dead chickens they got the turkeys and veals they got the doors in the back room and all the things they conceal they got the beans and the brown rice they got the...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
DURING the night of March 10 1985 US President Ronald Reagan was deep in slumber when he received a phone call: Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko had died. He was the third Soviet leader to die in two years. Yuri Andropov had died on February 9 1984 after only 15 months in office. Prior to that Leonid Brezhnev had died in November 1982. Brezhnev had ruled from 1964. Stalin had...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... that will be auctioned off for charity. The 'Brotherkiss' mural features former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and former East German communist leader Erich Honecker kissing. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... played by Alexei Guskov, is a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra who was dismissed on Leonid Brezhnev's orders in 1980 for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians. Working now as a janitor at the theatre, he intercepts a fax inviting the Bolshoi to perform at the Châtelet theatre in Paris. He puts together an orchestra from out-of-work musicians and takes them to Paris to play...
Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... rather than additional troops.” Read more at Bloomberg Russia failed: Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev sent tanks into Afghanistan to support a Marxist regime in 1979, betting superior firepower from the ground and air would keep the country within Moscow’s fold. Soviet aims were thwarted by an Islamist mujahedeen movement supported by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the U.S....
Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! "We have beaten Russia 116-112 in boxing!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Russia! "Russia, birthplace of giants. "Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Maria Sharapova, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Kournikova, --- we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all....
Dutchblog Israel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... 7 November 1972: Nixon re-elected 4 November 1979: Iranians storm US embassy 10 November 1982: Leonid Brezhnev dies 9 November 1989: Berlin Wall 'opened' 5 November 1990: Meir Kahane murdered in New York 7 November 1991: Magic Johnson announces he is HIV positive 4 November 1995: Yitzhak Rabin murdered 4 November 2008: Barack Obama elected
