Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party First Secretary Dzhumber I. Patiashvili, who had accepted responsibility for the tragedy, had his resignation accepted unanimously by the party's Central Committee after "heated discussion," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gennady I. Gerasimov...
MOSCOW--Soviet Georgia's leaders removed the republic's Communist Party chief and premier yesterday, five days after troops dispersed protesters in a bloody melee that killed 19 people. The KGB chief was named party leader...
...republic's Communist Party newspaper Zarya Vostoka, in an editorial carried in part by Tass, placed part of the blame for the bloodshed on Georgia's party leaders, saying they couldn't escape responsibility "When a political decision taken by the leadership was carried out, unfortunately, in such a way that it led to heavy moral, ethical and human losses...
...announcing the Georgian shakeup, Gerasimov said, "There was a heated discussion, I might say, and the plenary meeting has met the request of Comrade Patiashvili of relieving him of the post of the first secretary of the Georgian Communist Party unanimously...
...Minh had no way of being seen as who he was, a communist and a nationalist," Sheehan said...