Word: grechko
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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More recently, said Hoxha, "Malinovsky [Soviet Defense Minister] attacked the government and the party during the meeting of the chiefs of staff of the Warsaw Pact, and Grechko [Moscow's commander in chief of Warsaw Pact armies] brought pressure to bear on us by threatening to exclude us from the Warsaw Pact." The Russians also tried to sub- vert Albania's party officials. Specifically Mrs. Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo, who "capitulated to the dishonest threats of the Soviet Union...