Word: maltsev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet envoy, Ambassador Viktor Maltsev, totally rejected a series of "confidence-building" measures, including one that would permit Communist observers at NATO military maneuvers and Westerners at Warsaw Pact exercises. Warning that the East bloc would allow "no room for the dissemination of anticulture," Maltsev implied that Western proposals for an increased flow of ideas and people between East and West would go nowhere. The point was later made more bluntly in a Pravda article, which scoffed that "such impudent claims will meet a firm rebuff...