Word: bezopasnost
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...very. But not quite as strange and different as it would have seemed a couple of years ago. Novoye myshleniye (new thinking), Mikhail Gorbachev calls this vision of a new international order. The phrase has become a standard entry in Gorbachev's lexicon, along with another mouthful: obshchaya bezopasnost (mutual security). In the world according to Gorbachev, these concepts mean rejecting the basic zero-sum, cold-war notion that any gain for one side requires a loss for the other, that security depends on making rivals insecure. "Less security for the U.S. compared to the Soviet Union would...
Those who fear that successful economic reforms would lead Moscow to renew its expansionist policies argue that, despite Gorbachev's rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often been to identify a danger, then crush it. As a largely landlocked nation with a history of being invaded, Russia developed an expansionist desire to control large territories. Over the years, there has been nothing as offensive as Russia on the defensive. Witness the postwar subjugation of Eastern Europe...
...concept of the security of the Soviet state is sacrosanct in a way roughly comparable to the concept of personal freedom in the West. In Russian, security is bezopasnost -- the B in KGB. The word literally means "the absence of danger." As a profession, security means vigorously identifying and, whenever possible, eliminating danger...
...first effect of Communism's claim to liberate mankind and introduce a higher morality is to convert its most devoted adherents into a dark, anonymous army committed as a duty to crime, duplicity and terror. The main spy organization is the GB (Gosudarstvennaya Bezopasnost -State Security), whose list of names reads like alphabet soup, e.g., GPU, NKVD, MGB, since it began life as the CHEKA in 1917. Furthermore, allied and sometimes competing with the GB are the spy apparats of the Red army, the Ministry of Trade and the Communist Party itself. Their strength lies in two things...
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