Word: dmitry
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halted before a well-guarded gate. "This is Maidenek," Dmitri Kudriavtsev said. I saw a huge, not unattractive, temporary city. There were about 200 trim, grey green barracks, systematically spaced for maximum light, air and sunshine. There were winding roads and patches of vegetables and flowers. I had to blink twice to take in the jarring realities: the 14 machine-gun turrets jutting into the so-blue sky; the 12-ft.-high double rows of electrically charged barbed wire; the kennels which once housed hundreds of gaunt, man-eating dogs...
...death there has been an unwritten Kremlin rule that the party chief must be an ethnic Russian. In Medvedev's view, the tactics used by Chernenko's supporters were mere pinpricks to Andropov, who had gained the crucial support in the Politburo of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
...theory is that Andropov may have indicated to Kohl in Moscow last month that he might be willing to reconsider the Nitze-Kvitsinsky scheme. Officials in Bonn deny that this was the case. They note that when West German officials asked Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov about the plan, he curtly replied: "We do not want to talk about walks in the woods. We want to talk about talks at the table." Still, the Soviet strategy from the beginning has been to appear to West Europeans to be more flexible than the U.S. Soviet Foreign Affairs Specialist Genrikh Trofimenko added...
...choice or political necessity, maintained a low domestic profile. Now, however, the name of the stooped and often visibly tired former KGB chief is beginning to sprout more frequently on the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Moreover, in a long Pravda article published last week, Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov for the first time referred to Andropov as Chairman of the Defense Council. The new title meant that Andropov now holds a post equivalent to commander in chief, thereby occupying two of the three top positions once held by Brezhnev. (The office of President remains unfilled.) Some Kremlinologists infer that...
...superficial logic to the Weinberger position. But aside from its debatable starting premise that the U.S. is now inferior, that position spells trouble on two counts. First, regardless of what "net assessment" he or any military analyst might make about the Soviet-American balance, Weinberger's Soviet counterpart, Dmitri Ustinov, is never going to accept the notion that the Soviets must sit on their hands while the U.S. catches...