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...staff colleges for up to three years of advanced training. Graduates of these institutes are much respected by their peers in the West. Says a West German defense expert: "In theory, strategy and tactics, Soviet military training is top grade." Especially admired are the senior commanders, such as Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 62, the Chief of Staff, and Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, 70, Commander of the Navy. Says Kremlinologist John Erickson, director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh: "They are very able, very tough and on a par with the best military brains in the West...
...Kirilenko, he is a longtime Brezhnev supporter. But Chernenko's present low ranking (seventh in the Politburo hierarchy) and his lack of executive experience may rule him out for the top post in an interim government. The most obvious candidate to replace Premier Kosygin is First Deputy Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, 75, who has already assumed many of his boss's functions...
...housed the All-Russian Insurance Co. Behind the headquarters is the most celebrated KGB structure, Lubyanka Prison, through which tens of thousands of Soviet citizens have passed on their way to concentration camps or execution. These probably included three of Stalin's own secret police chiefs-Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrenti Beria-who were shot following their fall from power. The KGB has administrative offices in every major center, and KGB officers occupy key posts in the Soviet armed forces and the regular police, as well as in factories, government offices, universities and most other major Soviet institutions...
Whole industries have sprung up to service the markets on the left. Printers illicitly run off copies of scarce books, while entire hidden factories make jeans and cosmetics. Truck Drivers Nikolai Butko and Alexander Konovalov developed a very elaborate triangular trade from the Caucasus Mountain city of Krasnodar near the Black Sea. They picked up purloined steel from a state factory, delivered it to government farms in exchange for off-market tomatoes, grapes and peas, and then sold the produce in Siberia, where fresh vegetables were in short supply...
...Nikolai Gubenko's The Orphans (1978) takes place in a state orphanage right after the war. If the institution's staff is seen as rather too noble, the problems of the children-ranging from withdrawal to rebelliousness-are sensitively portrayed. It is a strong and absorbing work...