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Contrasting the goals of the Soviet science with the goals of the science controlled by the Americal imperialists, Soviet biology scientists say: “Biology is a life science, but American biologists turn it into a death science, a science that deals with the better and faster destruction of all the living things on earth.”
Source: tatoeba (2907160)
American imperialists, in their attempt to break and disorganise the forces of the defenders of peace, democracy and socialism, have established firm contact with the imperialists of the Marshall Plan countries, where they export not only weapons and thrillers, rotten canned food and bubble gum, but also the insights of their "philosophers".
Source: tatoeba (2907234)
The economy of the colonies, despite the widely advertised "civilizing activity" of the imperialists, is at the level of the most backward agriculture and cattle breeding.
Source: tatoeba (10903470)
Can we agree that imperialism is bad anywhere, even if the imperialists belong to the specific global power bloc that we were born into?
Source: tatoeba (11042545)
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Closest matches include colonialist, colonialists, colonizers, expansionist, expansionists.
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