Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attractive, cultured and correctly attuned ideologically, Raisa Gorbachev was the model of the modern Soviet woman and an asset to her husband as he entertained Moscow dignitaries vacationing in the spas near Stavropol. Among them was Yuri Andropov, then chief of the KGB, who eventually became Mikhail's mentor. In 1978 Mikhail Gorbachev was promoted to Party Secretary for Agriculture, and the couple finally returned to Moscow. By 1985 Mikhail was General Secretary of the party and the leader of the Soviet Union. Spotting a photograph of Andropov in Washington last year, Raisa said, "We owe everything...
...year, a question on whether Gorbachev discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with his wife was deleted. The General Secretary's answer ("We discuss everything") was cut as well. In Washington last year she spontaneously crossed the street to talk to Western journalists, underlining a Gorbachevian openness; her KGB bodyguards promptly ordered the only Soviet journalist in the press group to leave...
...only so far without provoking retrogressive reaction. For that reason, Sergei Grigoryants, editor of a dissident journal named Glasnost, was jailed for a week earlier this month. When he was released, he discovered that the house from which he had published his journal had been sealed by the KGB and all his printing equipment smashed...
...Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the 1930s, and his death last week at 76 of undisclosed causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life and those of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two fellow British double agents whom he helped escape in 1951, inspired countless plays, films, novels...
...first the KGB seemed content to watch from the sidelines as some 100 dissidents gathered last week. But as the group was winding up its second day of political meetings at a dacha outside Moscow, the authorities moved in and detained 23 people, keeping almost half of them overnight. Reason: the dissidents had proclaimed the birth of an independent political party, the Democratic Union, to challenge the Communists...