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Shura, 37, a bearded artist in a faded sheepskin coat, a fur hat tipped to one side of his head. He beckoned toward a darkened doorway before speaking: "Lenin was the only one who thought about us; all the leaders who followed him were ambitious. That is why Brezhnev let us live our own lives; he lived a pretty nice one himself, eh? I have a friend who knows people in the Central Committee. He says that Gorbachev knows what he is about, that he is with it. Say, let's sneak off for a drink. Why huddle here discussing...
...Amfitheatrof, each ritual had its memorable moments. "Brezhnev's was the first of my Red Square state funerals, but I missed it," he says. "I chose instead to be one of 30 journalists permitted to go into the Kremlin's pearl white, czarist-era Hall of St. George to watch the world's leaders express condolences to Brezhnev's successor, Andropov." Amfitheatrof had armed himself with a strong pair of Soviet-made binoculars to monitor Andropov's expression as he greeted such disparate visitors as George Bush and Fidel Castro. "The binoculars were large and conspicuous," recalls Amfitheatrof...
...changing life-styles of Soviet youth, Soviet military strength and scores of other stories. But no subject has preoccupied him more deeply than the waning lives and deaths of the Soviet Union's superannuated rulers. Since November 1982, Amfitheatrof has attended the obsequies for three top Soviet leaders, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, as well as those for the powerful Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
...members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
Secret emperors, the men of the KGB exercise preventive supervision of the population and its loyalty. The KGB could not halt the alienation that grew as Khrushchev's and Brezhnev's expansive promises of well-being went unfulfilled. But the "GehBeh," as the organization is nicknamed after its initials, can report what is happening to the leadership. The more disquieting evidence it produces, the more the KGB justifies its insistence on larger budgets and greater manpower. Since there really has been trouble--a food riot in Novocherkassk in 1962, for instance--the leadership has acquiesced to the KGB's demands...