Word: kosygin
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...note of restrained cordiality was struck from the moment Nixon landed Monday at the Moscow airport. On hand to greet him were President Nikolai Podgorny, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Brezhnev was absent, but that was not unusual or slighting. The route to Moscow had been cleaned up for the President's visit. U.S. flags waved alongside Soviet banners on lampposts. In the soft glow of twilight, the glittering domes of the Kremlin churches seemed cheerful and inviting as the limousines crossed the Moscow River and swept into the fastness of the Kremlin...
...Americans seized their opportunity to scrutinize the Soviet leadership. Bluff and hearty, Brezhnev was obviously doing his best to make his guests feel at home. At their initial meeting, the first smile crossed Kosygin's face when Nixon rather pointedly mentioned that "I have a reputation as a longtime anti-Communist." Brezhnev's wife Viktoria told the press that her husband had "been in a good mood lately and that's not always the case...
Nixon walked the Kremlin grounds in the first mists of morning, laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, talked hunting with Brezhnev and fishing with Kosygin. He rode a hydrofoil on the Moscow River, saw the Bolshoi dance Swan Lake and told those around him that when he gets back to Washington, "I will close my eyes and see it all again...
...metallurgical engineering. Then came Stalin's great purge, which swept hundreds of thousands of loyal Communists into prison. Brezhnev was too insignificant a party member to be among the victims. But the terror left a vacuum in the party leadership that helped Brezhnev-like his colleague Premier Aleksei Kosygin-achieve a position of influence quite out of proportion to his age and experience. In 1939, at the age of 33, he became a party leader of a major industrial region in the Ukraine...
...patron. Within hours of Khrushchev's fall, Brezhnev slipped into the slot of party chief. Since that time, he has succeeded in outmaneuvering and outdistancing his principal opponents in the Politburo-notably, Alexander Shelepin and Nikolai Podgorny. He has also managed to take over many of Premier Kosygin's functions...