Word: gorshkov
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Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, visibly disturbed, repeated a question posed by Navy Chief Sergei Gorshkov: "Is our Mediterranean fleet going to go back to depending on Odessa for supplies and fresh water? This would mean we will have to contract our navy in the Mediterranean...
...What spy?" asked the man at his side, an Izvestia correspondent who was aboard the cruiser because Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov and General Aleksei Yepishev, the top political commissar for the Soviet military, were paying a visit to Moscow's Mediterranean fleet...
...comfort. She keeps track of them on their travels, serves as assistant customs broker when they return from abroad, translates their imaginative notes into reasonable expense accounts. In between times, she keeps busy collecting the photographs that some artists work from, finding background symbols (the insignia for Soviet Admiral Gorshkov's uniform, Feb. 23, 1968; the collection of birth control pills, April 7, 1967), or arranging sittings when our artists paint from life, as they sometimes...
...Indeed, "the West, and especially the U.S., has no choice but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas." We need only think of what Hitler could have done with Gorshkov's fleet to see the reason. How the history of the world would have been changed. Seapower will ensure us of more than a posthumous footnote in future history...
...presenting Admiral Gorshkov as a real tough guy, you write: "While his aides looked on aghast in Agra last week, he seized a thick, six-foot-long python in his strong hands and draped it over his shoulders." I am afraid you were misled by the photographer. Maybe the admiral is not so tough. The snake in the picture is the same one put on my shoulder just the other day by the Indian fellow who supplies it for 130 or one rupee...