Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have good reason to fear the KGB [Feb. 14]. As your story points out, the KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful "largely because Soviet citizens police one another." A society that reveres a child who turned in his father to the authorities is right out of George Orwell...
After reading of the KGB's brutal methods for repressing other countries, I realize how foolish and naive those liberals are who believe the Soviet Union wants peace. The U.S. is hardly responsible for the arms race or the instability in the world...
...disgusting that American citizens would sell national-security information for a few thousand dollars. The only way to prevent this is to prosecute the KGB's U.S. agents for treason and sentence them to death...
...might suggest. They noted that the Soviet leader was tired when the meetings began and that he seemed to have lost weight. The French visitors' firsthand impressions supported the generally accepted portrait of Andropov as a cool, tough-minded leader. The Soviets have tried to present the former KGB chief as an urbane, affable, liberal and therefore less threatening adversary...
...down truant workers who show up late at the factory, Andropov is seeking to free his creaking bureaucracy of its habitual corruption. Since assuming office, he has reshuffled some 20 top officials and summarily dismissed six others. He pointedly chose Crime Buster Geidar Aliyev, 59, former party boss and KGB chief in Azerbaijan, as Deputy Premier. He also fired Leonid Brezhnev's crony and Interior Minister, Nikolai Shchelokov, and replaced him as head of the bribe-prone civil police with his successor at the KGB, General Vitali Fedorchuk...