Citations:Helsinki syndrome

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English citations of Helsinki syndrome

From the Helsinki accords
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  • 1977, East West Digest - Volume 13, Part 1, page 60:
    The Andropov-Brezhnev-Suslov regime is troubled by a Helsinki syndrome : in Moscow and Kiev prominent dissenters formed special committees to monitor the observance of the Helsinki Agreements by the Soviet government.
  • 1985, The Nation, volume 241, page 38:
    Most feared of all Scandinavian disorders is Helsinki Syndrome, in which positively charged particles of information afflict the victim’s central ideological system, causing him to question America’s absolute moral superiority in the cold war.
  • 2015, Irundy Ramos, The Chocolate Cake Clock:
    Helsinki syndrome is more of a case of group think and intentional blindness to the negative in order to achieve some perceived benefit, a reference to the nonbinding Helsinki Accords that attempted to settle post-WW II Cold War tensions.