Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aware that any Soviet leader needs the support of the secret police, Gorbachev arranged last April for KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, 62, to become a full member of the Politburo. He also endorsed the popular Leningrad party chief, Lev Zaikov, 62, for membership in the Central Committee Secretariat...
...long and as hard as the Galuth (the biblical exile of the Jews from Israel) because in these years the Pharaohs of our time decided to announce a new conspiracy of Jews, from Russia and other countries, against the regime. I know how strong was the hatred of the KGB, and how strong their determination not to allow this day to come. The very fact that it did come is a strong indication of the justness of our cause...
...last Monday morning, as he was reading from the work of the German author Friedrich Schiller, Shcharansky was told to take off his prison uniform and don civilian clothing. Escorted by four KGB agents, he was then flown to a Moscow airport and put aboard another plane, which took off immediately. "Judging from the sun," he said later, "I concluded that we were flying toward the west. I was pleased because it seemed I was leaving the Soviet Union." When he asked the KGB agents where they were heading, one replied that he was authorized to say Shcharansky was being...
...left the Soviet plane in East Germany, the KGB agents merely pointed him toward a waiting limousine and told him to go to it. Once Shcharansky was inside, a German security man told him he was in East Berlin. "For every Jew, the word Berlin evokes mixed feelings," said Shcha ransky. "But for me, at this time, it is the most wonderful place." The next morning he was driven to the Glienicker Bridge, together with the three West German spies who were to be exchanged along with him. Two and a half hours later, he was reunited with a tearful...
...Shcharansky spent 3,255 days in the Gulag, the extensive Soviet penal system, almost completely cut off from external contacts. He had only the faintest sense of his international celebrity. "The method the KGB uses against prisoners is to isolate them fully from the outside world," he explains. What is so terrible about this isolation, he believes, is that it often leads a man to begin compromising himself morally "because he has been cut off" from the system of values he ordinarily lives...