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...campaign continued with a new twist. Demands for his punishment were replaced by expressions of gratitude that Kremlin leaders had up rooted "the traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow from there. Other minor miracles were performed by letter writers from Minsk and Kiev: their messages of approval were also received several days ahead of schedule. Such transparently clumsy tactics were added evidence that the Kremlin had long prepared the action...
...September 1969, KGB agents in Beirut tried to steal a French-built Mirage 111-E fighter from the Lebanese air force to test against Soviet MIGs. They offered a young Lebanese fighter pilot $2,000,000 to fly his plane to Baku in the Soviet Union. The officer reported the offer to his superiors, and the two Russians, caught red-handed with a $200,000 down-payment check, were wounded in a shootout with Lebanese police and were quickly deported...
...group in Western Europe and then seized upon by the KGB as a pretext for cracking down on dissident elements. According to one account, the KGB has used the appeal to justify sweeping investigations not only in Tallin, but also in other places, including Leningrad, the Azerbaijan city of Baku and the Siberian industrial center of Khabarovsk...
Line of Teachers. An indefatigable crusader for the enrichment of the scant cello repertory, Rostropovich has induced several other composers to create for the cello. Prokofiev and Shostakovich both wrote works for him. Born in Baku, Russia, Rostropovich was virtually weaned on cello music; his grandfather and father, who studied under Casals, were noted teachers of the instrument. When the family moved to Moscow, Rostropovich joined his father's class at the Children's Music School, began teaching on his own at 15. At 19 he was appointed soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, played in a trio with...
...factories had to be suspended because their goods simply would not be bought. Moreover, state trade organizations returned or marked down 20% of all clothing, 10% of hosiery and 9% of shoes produced. Russian refrigerator factories received 56,000 written complaints about faulty products-including refrigerators from the Baku factory lacking refrigerant gas in their coils. As a result of the consumer's stiffening standards and an increased inclination to complain, an incredible $3 billion worth of unsellable junk has accumulated in Soviet inventories...