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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam Chomsky
Last-Minute
States
Worst
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Darling
Minute
Had
He
Supported
Until
Him
West
Dictator
Romania
Loved
Which
Europe
United
United States
Last
Britain
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.
Norman Davies
Great
Experience
People
Emotions
Matter
Own
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Weaving
Touch
Delicious
Spite
Writes
Ideas
She
Yale
Subject
Subject Matter
Intellectual
Commentary
Familiar
Personal
Taste
Shore
Ashes
Much
Europe
Including
Professor
Her
I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.
Peter Landesman
Me
Trafficking
Pilot
East
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Restaurant
Weapons
Followed
Through
Investigative
Had
Taking
Arms
Doing
Been
Left
Up
Article
Middle
Being
Middle East
After
Realized
Helicopter
Who
Europe
Set
Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.
Robert C. Solomon
Few
Those
Eastern
Would
Eastern Europe
Some
Mainly
Clearly
Countries
Close
Africa
Hold
Automatically
Europe
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
Robert Kagan
World
Old
Backwards
Sense
Think
Eastern
Eastern Europe
He
Almost
Between
New
Attitudes
Well
Got
Question
Western
Western Europe
Maybe
Difference
Which
Interesting
Notice
View
Europe
Even
Right
World View
The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.
Serge Schmemann
War
Me
History
Communism
Events
Berlin Wall
Fall
Way
Berlin
Eastern
Eastern Europe
About
Emerging
Since
Look
Also
Continuation
Cover
Very
Wall
Reporter
Story
Much
Notion
Sequel
Europe
Appealed
Presenting
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Tariq Ali
Political
Hoped
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Restoration
Concept
Am
Revolutions
Happen
After
Happened
Might
Capitalist
Europe
Fully
Aware
Actually
Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.
Tibor Fischer
You
Hungary
Rest
Assumed
Everyone
Hungarian
Eastern
Eastern Europe
About
Knew
Name
Also
Because
Europe
Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.
Tim Cope
Black
Important
Met
Once
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Silk
Russia
Road
Where
Central
Asia
Capital
Across
Sea
Europe
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
Victor LaValle
Women
Immigration
Fear
Old
Our
Bad
Eastern
Eastern Europe
About
Also
Vulnerable
Story
Europe
Dracula
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
W. Averell Harriman
Day
Every Day
Myth
Every
Gave
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Stalin
Roosevelt
Europe
Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe.
Michael Moore
Cause
Building
Fall
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Arms
Up
Did
Europe
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.
Rush Limbaugh
People
World
Debate
Liberate
Side
Eastern
Eastern Europe
More
Wrong
Wrong Side
Freeing
Reagan
Were
Than
Did
Soviet
Thatcher
Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
Union
Europe
Ever
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
Defeating
In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama
Man
World
Own
Young
Community
Took
Marked
Our
Summer
East
Eastern
Eastern Europe
City
Small
Divided
Instability
Tensions
Know
Also
Missouri
Ferguson
Yes
American
Middle
Where
Middle East
Young Man
Racial
Notice
Ethnic
Europe
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