Word: apparatchiks
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...into the elite class, just as many privileged citizens in the scientific and cultural fields never join the party. Moreover, party responsibilities are demanding and promotions are slow in coming, since top officials tend to remain at their posts into their 70s or 80s. In general, the aspiring apparatchik must rely on patience, hard work and diligence, plus a certain Dale Carnegie-like skill for flattering and impressing his bosses...
...Nations delegate; in Moscow. He is chiefly remembered, at least in the West, for boycotting the Security Council to protest its refusal in 1950 to recognize Communist China; this helped clear the way for the U.N. to assist South Korea against the Soviet-backed North Korean invasion. A dependable apparatchik, he once told a Western diplomat: "I must obey my instructions...
...Russian ambassador, Nikita Tolubeyev, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and dean of the diplomatic corps, but he is certainly no high commissioner. He is generally regarded by Cuban and foreign contacts alike as a mostly ornamental, rather ineffectual apparatchik and errand boy. In fact, Tolubeyev has complained to his home office that he has difficulty getting access to Fidel. One reason may be that after more than seven years in Havana, Tolubeyev has yet to learn more than a smattering of Spanish. When Fidel wants to coordinate his signals with the Kremlin, he does so by dispatching...
...reasons behind Shevchenko's action appeared murky at first. Regarded by his U.N. colleagues as an arrogant, hardline Communist apparatchik, Shevchenko clearly had not been moved by a sudden, overwhelming yearning for freedom. Moreover, the move seemingly cut short a brilliant career. First posted to the U.N. in 1963 as a counselor in the Soviet Mission, Shevchenko served in New York for seven years. The Ukrainian-born diplomat then returned to Moscow as an adviser to Foreign Minister Gromyko and reached ambassadorial rank at the unusually early age of 40. In 1973 he was sent back...
Despair over totalitarianism has inspired dissident movements within the Marxist-Leninist states. East German Party Apparatchik Rudolf...