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  • No president has had the guts to propose a comprehensive, federally subsidized child care program since Richard Nixon vetoed such a plan, calling it the "sovietization of American children."

    Martha Burk: Who is Obama Kidding? June Cleaver Doesn't Live Here Anymore 2010

  • No president has had the guts to propose a comprehensive, federally subsidized child care program since Richard Nixon vetoed such a plan, calling it the "sovietization of American children."

    Martha Burk: Who is Obama Kidding? June Cleaver Doesn't Live Here Anymore 2010

  • No president has had the guts to propose a comprehensive, federally subsidized child care program since Richard Nixon vetoed such a plan, calling it the "sovietization of American children."

    Martha Burk: Let's Really Value Motherhood 2008

  • They predicted that sovietization would lead to greater economic performance.

    Pathological Science... GayandRight 2007

  • They predicted that sovietization would lead to greater economic performance.

    Archive 2007-11-01 GayandRight 2007

  • USSR People's Artist Sos Sargsyan said old Yerevan was famous for its churches before they were ruined during the sovietization.

    Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net 2010

  • PanARMENIAN. Net - Old Yerevan was famous for its churches before they were ruined during the sovietization, USSR People's Artist

    Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net 2010

  • PanARMENIAN. Net - Old Yerevan was famous for its churches before they were ruined during the sovietization, USSR People's Artist

    Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net 2010

  • The hyper-centralization of everything-from education and health care to our banking system and energy policy-is gradually shifting us towards a cradle-to-grave sovietization of our entire economy, instituting a debilitating dependency of individuals on government for everything in their life.

    The Tech - MIT's Student Newspaper 2009

  • Although he was publicly committed to the idea of autonomous socialist republics, Lenin’s intentions with regard to the newly emerged independent Lithuania make clear what in his view that meant: “We must ensure that we first sovietize Lithuania and then give it back to the Lithuanians,” he noted in July 1920.16 The process of sovietization was a bloodbath, as the Bolsheviks repressed the populations using every means at their disposal.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

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