Word: alexei
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...that 62% of all Soviet engineering output was military hardware, while consumer goods totaled only 6%. Because it has been secret for so long, quantifying the magnitude of the military-industrial complex can be only an approximate business. "We have no way of measuring its size," says Alexei Pankin, deputy editor of the journal Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn. "The defense industry just takes what it wants, and whatever is left over goes to the civilian sector...
...space missions, might be the first text in a syllabus for environmental re-education. In quotes accompanying the pictures, cosmonauts and astronauts from more than a dozen nations struggle to express the transcendental experience of seeing how life has invested our planet with a luminous beauty. Writes Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov: "So touchingly alone, our home must be defended like a holy relic...
...black leather briefcase, Starr carries a manila file folder of neatly xeroxed Crimson articles about his copyright reports at Harvard, Time and News-week pieces about other copyright infringements and a copy of his motivational mantra: a letter written by Alexei Cowett '89, which ran in the May, 1984, Deerfield Gazette...
...Marx teach that it was the "opium of the people"? Lenin himself wrote that the Russian Orthodox Church had to be suppressed, its treasure confiscated. But last week the hold of the atheistic Communist Party loosened a bit more as the state strengthened religious freedoms. With the Orthodox Patriarch, Alexei II, and other religious leaders watching, the Supreme Soviet, by a vote of 341 to 1, gave preliminary approval to a law that forbids the government to restrict "the study, financing or propagandizing" of religion...
...later learned that one Moscow University examiner had received a direct order to flunk him: "He won't be accepted anyway, and you'd just be fired." Alexei's story is not unusual. Anti-Semitic discrimination in university admissions is part of a deliberate policy of squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce...