Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning of Oct. 21 the doorbell rang. One of the most obnoxious of our guards stood at the door. "You are ordered to appear at the MVD Directorate...
...reached the MVD building around noon. I was angry at my legs and my heart for hurting, and at the wet snow and the piercing cold. When I found the right office, I was surprised to see it was the visa office, but there was a sign saying that it was closed. I asked a young woman at the reception desk what I was supposed...
...justice, Gennadi Kolesnikov. He charged me with violating Article 190-1 of the criminal code, which deals with "slander of the Soviet state or social system" and can lead to up to three years in a labor camp. In the next room, two women in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) uniforms did a body search and looked through my bag. They took copies of the letters that were supposed to reach my children before Andrei's hun ger strike. Kolesnikov barely glanced at them, so it was clear that he was already familiar with them...
After the appeals court confirmed the verdict against me in early September, an MVD official took my passport and gave me a certificate saying I was an exile. He told me that I could not travel beyond Gorky and that I retained all the rights of a citizen of the U.S.S.R. except the right to leave Gorky...
Though Soviet officials are aware of the booming second economy, they generally ignore the dealings of Ivan the Terrible Capitalist. Major violators are sometimes arrested, and officers of the MVD'S Administration for Combatting the Embezzlement of Socialist Property and Speculation have infiltrated the black markets. But the Kremlin grudgingly accepts the underground economy because it fills the gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried...