Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Presumably God will forgive the Soviet leadership for their repression of religious freedom and the official doctrine of atheism-I would think nyet...
There is no hope of mating such an opponent. Bukovsky, 36, played only to guarantee his rights under the Soviet Constitution and Criminal Code. His gambit was to exchange a third of his life in prisons and psychiatric clinics for the dignity of saying nyet. It gained him an international reputation for incorrigible heroics. In 1976 the Soviet government solved their embarrassment by swapping Bukovsky for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalan, then a prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship. Today Bukovsky lives in England, where he has resumed his frequently interrupted study of biology...
...Kremlin changes nyet to da, raising new hopes for detente...
...proposals for arms cuts, which Vance carried to Moscow in March. Since Carter's concepts would have required the Russians to give up existing (albeit aging) systems while the U.S. merely sacrificed weapons on the drawing board, it was not surprising-in retrospect-that Brezhnev thundered an unequivocal nyet (TIME, April...
...Kremlin suddenly change its nyet to da? Kremlinologists speculated that Brezhnev, who has staked much of his prestige on arms control, may have decided that time was running...