Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--Soviet Georgia's leaders removed the republic's Communist Party chief and premier yesterday, five days after troops dispersed protesters in a bloody melee that killed 19 people. The KGB chief was named party leader...
...learning to say out loud words we were afraid to voice for decades. In the past it was difficult for Ogonyok to decide to publish just a one- sentence reference to the need for public control over the Soviet military and the KGB. Now we publish everything that we can vouch for, which is how it should be. That is how Ogonyok's stories on the crimes of Stalin and modern corruption originated. That is how we examine such things as the decline of the Bolshoi Ballet, the rise of nonparty organizations in the Baltic republics, the problems...
...last years of his life, the police turned up unexpectedly and announced in embarrassment that as foreigners we were "violating a forbidden zone." The good-natured policemen did little to hide the fact that they were being forced to draw up a report on the orders of the KGB. The quiet snowfall beyond the window, reminding us of an old-style Russian winter, was our reward for this "violation...
...remember for the future? Are they just waiting for the present freedom to end, and everything they find now will be usable then as operational material? Or perhaps it's simpler and cruder -- they don't want us to forget ourselves and give way to euphoria. "We, the KGB, are the masters here. We can do anything here, we can peep into any hole -- either from above or from below, and you have no business coming here." So we knew whom we were dealing with...
...planning to return to England? Who cares where Graham Greene lives -- in England or in France? And Hemingway, he lived quite peacefully in Cuba (can you imagine! on an island!) and didn't hurry back to his Great Homeland. But Russia, it seems, possesses particular advantages (borders, the KGB, internal passports, patriotism, perestroika, nostalgia) that for some reason must be satisfied. The whole world begs you: Since you're a Russian writer, live in Russia. Especially since there's perestroika...