Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic area, Brezhnev pointedly praised the KGB (secret police) and called for greater vigilance against "bourgeois influences." He derided intellectuals who distort Soviet reality. All they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have been irreversibly relegated to the past." Then, in an evenhanded manner, Brezhnev rapped ultraconservative Soviet writers who "attempt to whitewash the past" by praising Joseph Stalin. Among his other points...
Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is going into the Congress stronger than ever. A year ago, when his leadership was under attack because of grave shortcomings in the economy, Brezhnev managed to consolidate his power with the help of the KGB (secret police) and Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister. As a sign of Brezhnev's ascendancy, his was the only signature to appear on the draft of the new five-year plan (1971-75). It was the first time such a document was signed by a single person since 1952?when the sole signature was Joseph Stalin's. Still...
...ubiquitous KGB could undoubtedly arrest all the key members of the protest movement in one sweep. Why don't they? One explanation may be that the regime does not wish to offend the scientific community, whose members ensure a flow of sophisticated weapons. Another explanation may be that the leaders have learned that large and powerful nations can tolerate a certain amount of internal dissent without coming apart at the seams...
...Western clothing, supplying trendy and kinky threads to modish Russians. Cost of a pair of white jeans: $30. Some items come right off the backs of tourists; they risk arrest for selling a shirt or sports coat to an importunate chap who later turns out to be a KGB...
...much. The problem is that Soviet Jews can do even less-unless they are willing to take grave risks. That point was dramatically illustrated last week when Amsterdam's daily De Telcgraaf arranged to telephone, in a still undisclosed manner, a Jewish family in Riga. Realizing that the KGB might well be recording the call, the paper's reporter asked: "Aren't you afraid they are going to use all this against you?" Said a woman at the other end: "They have given us so much misery we are not afraid any more." When the reporter wound...