Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a longtime foe of military mismanagement: "A fifth-grader could fill in the blanks on that one.If the Pentagon assumes that the KGB cannot, I guess the entire Western world can breathe a little easier...
...English-speaking official was summoned. He looked at the KGB notation. I was asked to explain...
...says that the KGB agents keep their shoes nice and clean," I said. I could think of little to add. "They use brushes," I said helplessly...
...dismayed. When the underground publication went on to declare that Soviet society "degrades women to the status of a work animal, a sex object and a breeding machine," they became alarmed. Finally, when the feminists called upon wives and mothers to persuade men not to fight in Afghanistan, the KGB felt compelled to move in on the fledgling women's liberation movement. Secret police agents swooped down on the Leningrad apartments of three editors of the magazine and gave them 24 hours to get out of the Soviet Union or face prison sentences. When the women chose exile...
...dazed by their expulsion, they still showed defiance. Said Tatyana Goricheva: "For 60 years Soviet women had remained silent. With the double workload -jobs and housework-they had no time to open their mouths. But now the women's movement is gaining ground." Goricheva, 32, told how the KGB harassed their magazine from its inception. The editors were repeatedly summoned by the KGB for interrogation and followed wherever they went. Their homes were searched in an effort to find the first typewritten issue, of which only ten copies had been produced. The police finally discovered and seized five copies...