Communist activities

In launching its subversion, communist China conspicuously combines trade activities with the dissemination of communist ideology and instigation to rebel against the Indonesian government, CHAS concluded. 

The reason given for these questionable activities was firstly to fight the Nazi s in WII and later, to combat the perceived communist threat that... 

It is not always the elation that is missed. An undertaker s customers, mistaking depressive sadness for compassion, complained about his appearance of indifference when he was in lithium treatment. Another patient regretted that in discussions he was unable to attain the level of excitement he considered necessary Doctor, I am a communist and I must get excited when I discuss. There are also patients who feel that lithium treatment makes life flat and less colorful, curbs their activity, and prevents them from going as fast as they would like. In most cases these complaints disappear when the patients become used to the stable life course. 

The German-Jewish Communist Bruno Baum, in 1935 sentenced to ten years imprisonment for anti-government activity together with Erich Honecker, later president of Communist East Ger-... 

In the meantime, he refocused his attention on the political arena. He had maintained his antibomb activism through the late 1940s even as the cold war deepened and anticommunist fervor created an atmosphere of distrust and political repression in the United States. As Albert Einstein and other scientists had predicted, in late 1949 the Soviet Union developed its own atomic bomb. At the same time, Mao Zedongs rebels triumphed in China, bringing the world s most populous nation under communist control. Then, in the summer of 1950, communist North Korea invaded South Korea, setting off the Korean War, a bloody conflict that cost the lives of thousands of U.S. troops. 

But Pauling, at the urging of his conscience and his wife, continued to speak out—and suffered for it. The FBI investigated him for years to see if he was a Communist party member (he was not). Agents combed through his personnel files at Caltech, questioned his friends and coworkers, and researched his activities in such groups as... 

Because of his anti-bomb activism, Pauling is labeled a Communist and denied a passport to travel outside the United States... 

In February 1992, two years after reunification, the following story was reported from the former East Germany.3 The recently opened Stasi (secret police) files had revealed that a 30-year-old woman who had been involved in a human rights demonstration in the mid-1980s had for the next six years been under observation—and that the spy who had reported her activities throughout this time was her husband. She filed for divorce. Her husband stated in an interview that if the Communists had remained in control, he would have continued to spy on her. 

The collapse of the communist regimes after 1989 brought hopes for more active policies and the tackling of transboundary flows of pollutants from CEE. The sharp economic downturn of the early transition period contributed to a decline in acidifying emissions. Environmental advocates and policy analysts feared, however, that the decline in acidifying emissions could be reversed as post-communist economies regain growth (McCormick 1998). 

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