Word: pavlichenko
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Meanwhile, Soviet Delegate Pavlichenko was escalating the Soviet threat that deployment would trigger an INF walkout and military "countermeasures." He hinted darkly that there might be new Soviet weapons in "Cuba and other Central American countries," a phrase that at the time could only mean Nicaragua. "How would you Like to have missiles there?" he asked. Other members of the Soviet negotiating team were issuing more credible threats: an increase in the number of SS-20s, the deployment of new shorter-range missiles in Eastern Europe, bringing submarines equipped with cruise missiles and low-flying "depressed-trajectory" ballistic missiles near...
...summer of 1982, the Soviets had issued another ultimatum. One of the delegates in Geneva, Vladimir Pavlichenko, warned the Americans that once the U.S. was seen "taking practical steps toward deployment," the U.S.S.R. would "walk out of the talks in indignation." The Soviet Union, moreover, would take military "counter-measures." Kvitsinsky echoed both halves of the threat...