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...about you?" Artyom asks. "Do you still believe?" The man's laugh is short, like a hiccup, revealing two gold-capped teeth. "I don't know what to believe anymore. Sometimes I think I should grab all the money I have, buy a pistol and take it to the Kremlin...
...pitiful, perhaps. But Honecker was one of the hardest of the hard-liners who ruled the Soviet bloc before communism collapsed. As East | Germany's security chief, he supervised construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. He supported the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of neighboring Czechoslovakia. And newly publicized Kremlin documents show that Honecker wanted to do the same against Poland. A letter from Honecker to Brezhnev on Nov. 26, 1980, denounced the Solidarity movement and appealed for a Warsaw Pact invasion to prevent "the death of Socialist Poland." Brezhnev, embroiled in Afghanistan, refused -- a decision that may have begun...
...Washington to change his shirt, he winged north 3,700 miles to snowy Moscow. There, he and Boris Yeltsin were to sign a treaty that should accomplish the truly radical cut in long-range nuclear weapons that had eluded so many previous leaders in the White House and the Kremlin. Bush called it "the most historic arms-control agreement ever made": both sides are to retire about two-thirds of their remaining long-range warheads, the U.S. / retaining 3,500 and the Russians...
...podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then he called for a referendum to end the political stalemate. "I am asking the citizens of Russia to make it clear," he said, addressing the electorate. "Which side...
...must compromise than Arkadi Volsky. He is not the most extreme opponent, but he is the most powerful. A former Communist Party apparatchik and adviser to each of the past three Soviet leaders, Volsky, 60, has the assured air of a man who has walked the corridors of the Kremlin many times. Holding only a nominal party office at the time of the August 1991 coup, he escaped the guilt by association that taints other former high party officials. Many observers now consider him a future Prime Minister -- a post he has repeatedly denied seeking. "I have said 29 times...