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Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...
Gorbachev was accompanied to Helsinki by Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, his chief military adviser. Akhromeyev warned the Americans that military action would result in colossal destruction and human casualties. He also warned that the war could not be brought to an end by air strikes alone and that the Iraqis were not afraid of losses on their side...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...
...Lithuanian crisis complicated the work of Santa's helpers in Washington and steeled resistance in Moscow. The top brass of the military was already upset about "losing" Eastern Europe. Now it looked as though Soviet power might be humiliated even within the borders of the U.S.S.R. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's personal military adviser, bluntly said that no setback would be more galling than "seeing our East German allies defect to NATO." Yevgeni Primakov, one of Gorbachev's closest associates on the Presidential Council, agreed in a conversation a few weeks ago: "A united Germany in NATO is something...
...some time and could not remember the computer code name that activated it. Guessing, he ran a program mysteriously titled AB; when nothing seemed to happen, he ran it again. Jackson was then horrified to see his entire report reorganized into an alphabetical list of single words, from Akhromeyev to Zelenogorsk. It took three hours to reconstruct the story, after which Jackson vengefully purged the AB program...