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Singled out for equally harsh criticism were Iron-and-Steel Industry Minister Ivan Kazanets, 67, in office for 20 years; Agricultural Machine-Building Minister Konstantin Belyak, 69, twelve years on the job; and Building- Materials Industry Minister Alexei Yashin, 66, appointed only six years ago. Gorbachev attacked all of them for failing to meet production quotas (in Kazanets' case, for the past 15 years) while raising their departments' budgets. Said Gorbachev: "I think we are not fellow travelers of those executives who hope to draw the country again into vast, unjustified spending...
...Alexei, 33, a mustachioed lawyer in a well-cut, ginger-colored suit, insisted on walking to an empty bus stop before talking: "As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lie: a small lie, a big lie and politics.' He was right, so I don't involve myself in politics. Of course, we presumed Chernenko was ill, but who knew how ill? They don't give health bulletins here, you know. This isn't America; we feed on news from the grapevine. So it was a surprise to hear he had actually died. Still, things haven...
...second session, held two days later at the U.S. mission, lasted just under two hours. It consisted mostly of exchanges of credentials and statements of position. Unlike the first session, the second involved Karpov's principal associates, Yuli Kvitsinsky and Alexei Obukhov. The two had sat out the opening meeting, apparently to underscore the Soviet position that the three "baskets" of arms issues under consideration must be resolved together...
...system overachieves in one notable undertaking: paperwork. Soviet Economist Alexei Rumyantsev, writing in the official trade-union newspaper Trud, estimated in 1983 that Soviet bureaucrats generated 800 billion documents a year. In addition, Rumyantsev noted that factories and offices were constantly being disrupted by inspections: he told of a machine-tool factory that had been visited 145 times in a single year...
Fedorenko told me what happened next. Mikhail Suslov and Alexei Kosygin were the prime movers against Khrushchev. Suslov seemed satisfied to be the party patriarch and main ideologist. Kosygin was happy to be Chairman of the Council of Ministers and play the major role in both domestic economic and foreign policies. But it was hard for them to agree on who should be First Secretary of the Central Committee...