Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sailors who work for one-fourth the $1,110-a-month wages of U.S. merchant seamen. Even when the ships operate at a loss, they provide the Kremlin with badly needed foreign currency (more than $2 billion in 1984). Their military usefulness is indisputable. Several Soviet liners are equipped with side ports for vehicles, which are of little use on a cruise but of great value for troop carriers...
...dramatic moment comes from tapes made by Nikita Khrushchev after he had been deposed as Kremlin leader in 1964.* The glee in Khrushchev's voice is evident as he recalls toying with Washington after the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane in 1960 and captured Pilot Gary Powers. The U.S., thinking the plane had been destroyed and the pilot killed, initially insisted that the aircraft had been on a weather reconnaissance mission. "After they . . . got thoroughly wound up in this unbelievable story, we decided to tell the world what had really happened," says Khrushchev. Eisenhower, who had recorded...
Gorbachev continued his propaganda blitz with some carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
...That's where his career to the Kremlin began," said Neznansky...
Absolute control over the means of production gives the Soviets a great advantage in the propaganda war. The Kremlin can shape, time and fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...