Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreeing to discuss NATO's year-old suggestion for mutual troop reductions in Europe (see chart). The Soviets, however, have shown no interest in such a move. The Red Army forces in Eastern Europe accomplish two major objectives of Soviet foreign policy: they provide perimeter defense of the motherland, and they help to keep the Warsaw Pact countries in line...
...furor in the Soviet Union over its foremost writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, last week gathered momentum. A month ago, Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Russian Writers Union on the charge that his novels, notably The First Circle and Cancer Ward, "threw mud on the motherland." Nine writers are reported to have called personally on the union's secretary to demand reconsideration of the expulsion. Seventy other writers are said to have sent letters or telegrams to the union call ing for a special rehearing of the case, and 300 others have reportedly written letters of protest...
...seem equally aged, if not exactly mellowed. The director and his French wife maintain homes in Mexico and Madrid. Both of his sons dabble in the arts, Raphael as a sculptor, Juan Luis as an experimental-film maker. This fall, the old man returned to his motherland once more, where, again, he is working on his "last" film. Under the sullen skies of Toledo, he directs scenes from Tristana, a dissection of Spanish middle-class society. One scene is purest Buñueliana: a crumpled, baggy-eyed Catherine Deneuve sits in a wheelchair, munching empty ice cream cones. Pushing...
...never read Solzhenitsyn's novels The First Circle and Cancer Ward, which are banned in the Soviet Union because they are a devastating portrayal of conditions in Stalin's concentration camps. Matushkin, however, contended that the West uses the books "to throw mud on our motherland." "How do you explain that they so eagerly print you in the West?" he asked. "And how do you explain that they obstinately refuse to publish me in my own country?" retorted Solzhenitsyn, who insisted that he had forbidden the appearance of his works in the West. He added that "we cannot...
...dismay not only Moscow's enemies, but many of its friends around the world. The Russians doubtlessly also calculated that the storm of protest by other Communist parties would soon subside, just as it did after Hungary in 1956. After all, the tradition of loyalty to the "Motherland of the Revolution" is long, emotional and prudent. As the world's second greatest power, Russia can provide better than anyone else the money, arms and technical aid that struggling Communists in other countries need...