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...right? Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, has talked of Russian puzzlement that American intellectuals are so reluctant to give Reagan credit for his diplomatic poker playing. Genrikh Trofimenko, once a Brezhnev adviser and U.S. expert at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, has stated that "99 percent of Russian people believe that [America] won the Cold War because of your President's insistence...
...that the decrees, combined with the fact that nearly all newly chosen officers of the Soviet government are Russians, meant that they had got rid of communist totalitarianism only to be swept up into a new Russian empire. "God save us from the nationalism of the Great People!" cried Genrikh Igityan, an Armenian Deputy, during one Supreme Soviet debate. Apparently realizing that he had overreached himself, Yeltsin late last week rescinded some decrees, including one asserting Russian control of state banks. That only added to the confusion: Viktor Gerashchenko, head of the Soviet central bank, Gosbank, was replaced one morning...
...regulated move toward a market economy when his critics began sounding off. "I listened, and can't understand what has been presented to us," snapped radical Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak. "Is this a government program or criticism of the alternative plan that we have yet to hear?" Armenian Deputy Genrikh Igityan was even more brutal. "I have sympathy with you," he said, tvurning to Ryzhkov, "but are you capable of bringing this country out of crisis?" Ryzhkov, said worker Leonid Sukhov, would "certainly have to step down." Nikolai Ivanov, the controversial public prosecutor and Kremlin gadfly, went even further. Gorbachev...
While many officials are apathetic toward the displaced peoples, others have been openly hostile, perhaps in an effort to shore up their own declining popularity. According to Genrikh Grout, spokesman for Renewal, a society devoted to returning Germans to the Volga, authorities in the Saratov area along the Volga River have publicly denounced would-be German returnees as "fascists." Says Grout: "There is no soap, milk, sausage or order here, and this ((name-calling)) is a channel to siphon off resentment...
...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 an element of perhaps deliberate uncertainty last week when he told a West German newspaper that if the U.S. were to present the walk-in-the-woods plan as a formal proposal in Geneva "we would discuss...