Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Sharansky, KGB officials ridiculed the letters he received from American students and housewives during his prison terms, but these letters helped to free him. Now, he said, is the time for these supporters to again show their support for the remaining Jews in the Soviet Union...
...KGB was always warning me that our fate, my personal fate, was in their hands, and not in the hands of the students and housewives. They were wrong in this case...
...refuseniks, the couple was not allowed to compete in chess tournaments. But seven years out of the limelight did not destroy the couple's reputation. "The KGB couldn't take away our prestige in the chess world," Gulko said...
...clandestine network of American right-wing activists "equivalent to the KGB" have for the last two decades attacked liberal groups here and abroad, a prominent civil liberties lawyer said in a speech at Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon...
...They're out to stomp out every single communist political group, every single socialist group, every single progressive political organiza- tion in the world," Sheehan said. "This is oneof the two largest threats to civil rights in theworld--the other is the KGB," he said...