Word: andropov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss, Yuri Andropov, took command in 1967, and in 1973 became the first KGB head since Stalin's dreaded Lavrenti Beria to join the ruling Politburo. Andropov, 63, is said to admire modern art and to be a witty conversationalist who speaks fluent English-a portrait that contrasts with his harsh actions as Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary during the 1956 uprising. Under Andropov, says one Western analyst, "the thugs are being weeded...
...would be heresy. Freedom is daily defined as freedom from want, and democracy is seen in terms of economic rights and Communist Party duties. The Western insistence on individuality is regarded as weakness and its passion for expression as a delusion. In a recent speech, Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov expressed his contempt for the Western version of democracy: "How can one speak of civil rights for the masses in capitalist countries where people live in fear of losing their jobs?" The picture of the West in the Soviet press is uniformly black-a nightmare of unemployment, strikes, inflation, crime...
...take the guise of local political movements. Moreover, Communist dictatorships without inquisitive legislatures or press can organize and finance secret operations in other countries in a way that no open society can. Unlike American leaders, Communist leaders never acknowledge such activities. The Soviet Union's KGB, headed by Yuri Andropov, regularly runs what the Russian bureaucrats call aktivniye meropriyatiye (literal translation: active measures). The KGB's budget is unknown, but it has about 300,000 employees, many of them assigned to domestic duties like operating the vast network of prison camps. Overseas, a majority of the Soviet embassy personnel...
...cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students, tourists and diplomats. Underscoring the supposed menace, Soviet Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov addressed the nation on television in a rare public appearance last month. "Reactionaries spend millions of dollars for intelligence and subversive services in hostile work against us," he charged. "The imperialists know we cannot be conquered militarily, so they seek to weaken the unity of the Soviet people and erode...
...page pamphlet The Secret Front, printed in a 250,000-copy edition, Semyon Tsvigun, Andropov's chief aide, calls for "intensifying the people's vigilance" as a "guarantee that foreign agents will be exposed." Any American Soviet citizens may meet in the U.S.S.R. is likely to be a spy, the book asserts. According to KGB Policeman Tsvigun, the 90,000 American tourists who visited the Soviet Union last year were obliged to submit a written report to U.S. authorities on their return home...