Word: georgie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge. But October came and went with nothing done. In mid-November, hard-line ideology chief Jan Fojtik traveled on short notice to Moscow, where he met with Georgi Smirnov, chief of the Moscow Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Smirnov said that a document condemning the 1968 invasion had been approved by the Soviet Politburo, and he warned that with the Malta summit approaching, the document would soon be published...
Reassuringly, the more dangerous and uncertain the game becomes on The Blue X Conspiracy, the more cautious the players turn on both sides. When word reaches the Soviets that the Afghan mujahedin rebels, backed by the U.S., have attacked the key Afghan air base at Bagram with chemical weapons, Georgi Korniyenko, a retired Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime aide to Andrei Gromyko, warns his colleagues not to "jump to the conclusion that this step was sanctioned by the highest leadership of the U.S. Administration...
...there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
...second year in a row, the write-a-thon focused on Georgi M. Belitsky, an applied physicist who has been demanding to leave the Soviet Union since...
...agree, things have changed. I tell my questioner that they've also published dissident writers such as Vladimir Voinovich and Georgi Vladimov, they've begun little by little to publish me, and they're even allowing some limited criticism of the General Secretary. If things go any further...