Word: dachas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparent effort to insulate her from contact with diplomats and other foreigners to whom she might complain. Mother and daughter were dispatched 1,000 miles south to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, not far from Stalin's birthplace. Svetlana was given a modest apartment but no car, dacha or any of the other perquisites that families of the Soviet elite enjoy...
Those two tough fellows got together in a dacha outside Moscow in 1972. Brezhnev talked about his boyhood, his father and peace. Brezhnev had mastered Kremlin politics as Nixon had mastered U.S. politics. Secure in their power, they could go beyond the set agenda. After taking on a little vodka, they made a deal: SALT I. For Gromyko and Reagan, there may not have been enough vodka, because there was no deal...
...head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around the U.S. embassy dacha, ten miles from the Kremlin. "There was a real danger of someone being knocked down and injured," said Halloran, adding cheerfully, "They didn't say we couldn...
...Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed by his death in 1971, she lived quietly at their dacha outside Moscow...
...suddenly appeared at his funeral. Another reason for the difficulty is that by the time a new man achieves leadership, the Soviet mythmakers have been long at work. Last week, for instance, there were reports in Moscow that Chernenko was often seen walking and even exercising near his dacha in the woods outside Moscow. Rumors that he might be in poor health needed to be quashed...