Word: leonid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialist Country. The Russians seemed to go out of their way last week to demonstrate that such contingency plans might well be needed. In a speech in Warsaw, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev defiantly reasserted the new Soviet doctrine that has come to bear his name. Russia, he said, has the duty and the right to intervene not only in Communist countries like Czechoslovakia that are within the East bloc, but also, for that matter, in "any socialist country" where the forces of imperialism and capitalism and bourgeois revisionism threaten to make a come back. In repeating the justification...
...public protest that has put Party Chief Alexander Dubček under increasing pressures. Those pressures start, of course, with the Russians. Time and again during the recent demonstrations, the hot-line telephone on Dubček's desk jangled with angry calls from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, who warned that the Russian army was capable of controlling the streets if Dubček was not. Dubček summoned student leaders to his office and sternly warned that the party would not tolerate any more anti-Soviet dissent. Later, as Prague grew tenser by the minute...
...Western European Communists were furious. The leaders of French and Italian delegations both rose to announce that their parties intended to travel "our road toward socialism," as Italian Giancarlo Pajetta put it. Rumanian Delegate Chivu Stoica also declined to line up behind Gomulka's thesis. Russian Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev plumped for the Kremlin's long-sought Communist summit, which was postponed indefinitely after the invasion. But it was all too clear that European Communists are in no mood to convene in harmony...
...public organization," will soon be under direct state control. Sergei Pavlov, ex-head of the Communist Youth League, has been appointed to run a new Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. He has been made a member of the Cabinet. And his orders are blunt. Says Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev: "International standards for our sports must be improved...
...appeal for many Soviet youth. There is no war and no revolution to chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people into their nets to blunt their class and revo lutionary vigilance with false arguments of a bourgeois liberal...