Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonid Ilyich. Throughout the festivities, Leonid I. Brezhnev, 63, General Secretary of the Communist Party, moved with an air of self-assurance and complete command. He had reason to. Unless the evidence that has been accumulating for weeks is completely illusory, Brezhnev is now on his way to gaining control of the Soviet Union's enormous power as no one man has been since the forced retirement of Nikita Khrushchev nearly six years...
Above all, he would have had to reckon with the armed forces. No Soviet leader could gain power today in the face of the army command's express opposition. An elite, well-paid and tradition-conscious group of professionals, the military officer corps is one of the most cohesive elements in Soviet society. Moreover, as the protector of an invasion-wary people, the army commands genuine popular respect, even though its vast appetite for funds is chiefly responsible for persistent shortages of consumer goods. Top political leaders rely heavily on military expertise for advice on policies as diverse...
...DEFENSE COMMAND, also a separate branch, has 500,000 men. It has 3,400 interceptor aircraft, mostly MIG-19s and MIG-21s, and a number of giant TU-114s, which patrol Soviet borders as early-warning radar aircraft. Long-range antiaircraft SA-5 missiles are installed on the Tallinn Line along the Gulf of Finland. Around Moscow the Soviets have deployed the world's first ABM system, consisting of 64 Galosh missiles, which carry a 1-or 2-megaton warhead and have a range of several hundred miles. Because the Soviets halted deployment of the Galoshes three years...
Soviet naval activity in the Pacific has doubled in the past few years. Along the Sino-Soviet border, the Russians have doubled their troops to 300,000, brought up medium-range missiles (MRMs), and established a new area command to coordinate the defense efforts...
...Austrian border town of Braunau am Inn, is no longer marked as a shrine; only informed visitors can pick it out. His Alpine retreat at Obersalzberg, which survived the war, was dynamited by the Bavarian government. The remains of the dynamited Führerbunker, a concrete redoubt and command post beneath the Reich Chancellery, are now a grassy mound, situated fittingly enough in the narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets in German cities and towns have been renamed, often in honor of such heroes...