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Word: kgb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, I was riding in a taxi and the driver said, "I'm from Minsk." I began asking him questions, so persistently that he asked, "You wouldn't happen to be in the KGB, would you?" I persuaded him that I wasn't, and toward the end of our talk, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you Sakharov's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...summoned for more questioning the following day, then put into a van and driven home. When I got out, a man said to me, "Elena Georgievna Bonner? Allow me to introduce myself." "Get away!" I said, thinking someone was trying to meet me in front of all the KGB people with me. "You'll get into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...Allow me to introduce myself," he said again. "I am chief of the KGB of Gorky Oblast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...them of having brought on his worsened condition by giving him digitalis, which had a bad effect on him. I told them that giving him that medication was the only thing they did that was not premeditated, that they had simply lost their heads out of fear of the KGB. Everything else they were doing to Sakharov was a crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At War with the KGB | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...would like to tell the story of our car. It's an old car, born in 1976. And the KGB has subjected it to persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of the Sakharovs' Car | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

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