Word: baltabai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion was the most sensitive subject bound to come up in interviews with an American journalist, and the officials had carefully rehearsed their opening thoughts. Baltabai Yusupov, an Uzbek newspaper editor in Tashkent, even introduced what he called "strictly my own personal opinion" by noting for the record: "Of course, I personally agree entirely with the position expressed by Comrade Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in Pravda." Last month the Soviet President justified the invasion as a defense of Afghanistan against intervention by the forces of "imperialism...
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