In the history of the mouse, Engelbart was the Soviet Union.
The origins of the unrest lie both in the recent turmoil in Kyrgyzstani politics, and in the country's history as a former state of the Soviet Union.
The most enduring embargo in modern day history is a remnant of a Cold War past when the Soviet Union was the enemy and the world was on the brink of nuclear war.
"The common determination on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to preserve the territorial integrity of such imperial accidents of history as Yugoslavia -- to say nothing of the USSR and Iraq -- under centralized, totalitarian rule is emerging as the ironic definition of the so-called 'New World Order, '" said Frank J.
Given the Soviet Union's history of mass murder, subversion, and deceit, it is astonishing that even tangential association with Soviet-backed causes in the past does not arouse the moral outrage now that is still so readily evoked by connections with the (undisputedly revolting) regime in South Africa.
In the 1990s, with the Soviet Union vanquished, it was fashionable to talk about the end of history, and the inevitable triumph of Western liberalism, both economic and political.
This progresses upwards with increasing complexity to the end of secondary level education - where a study of world history requires an analysis of the role of specified Russian leaders in the break-up of the Soviet Union.
It is this history of confrontation with America, coupled with a close association with both Cuba and the former Soviet Union, that has, in Washington, caused the prospect of an Ortega victory to ruffle so many feathers.
As last week's column pointed out, no country can look back on its history without shame, and modern Russia does not need to feel perpetually burdened by the crimes of the Soviet Union.
Research into seabed minerals has a long and slightly conspiratorial history, starting in the Cold War with the United States and the Soviet Union surveying the oceans ahead of possible future conflict.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
History may judge that Mr Weinberger's role in fortifying America's arsenal, and thus hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union, outweighed everything else that happened on his watch, but even that because it contributed to a huge budget deficit was controversial at the time.
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