Word: plekhanov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never seen him." I saw a convoy of cars with aerials, some of them with lights flashing on the roofs, at the entrance of the office building, a swarm of drivers and guards. I peeped out the window that looked onto the presidential quarters: gloomy ((General Yuri)) Plekhanov ((head of the KGB department responsible for the security of Soviet leaders)) was ambling along the path...
...President said, "I don't have anything to say about that scum Plekhanov! He's not human! Do you think he's worried about his country? No way -- he's only after his rank and filthy life...
...Anatoli," said M.S., "we've got to do something. I will lean on that scum" -- he meant General Generalov, Plekhanov's deputy, who was put in charge of the security forces and became our warden. "I will slap him with demands every day. And I'll keep the pressure...
...Gorbachev went to another room, called in his wife, daughter and son-in-law and warned them that his visitors might "attempt to arrest me or take me away somewhere." Returning to his office, he found that the delegation had already bulled its way in. There were four besides Plekhanov. Gorbachev initially named only one: Valeri Boldin, his own chief of staff. It was as if John Sununu had joined a coup against George Bush. The others were finally identified as Oleg Baklanov, deputy chairman of the National Defense Council and in effect leader of the military-industrial complex...
...head of Gorbachev's security guards entered the President's office and, as Gorbachev later recounted the story, announced that "a group of people" was demanding to see him. Who were they, asked Gorbachev, and why had they been let into the house? They were accompanied by Yuri Plekhanov, the chief of the state security-guard organization, said Gorbachev's man; that was all he knew. Gorbachev picked up a phone to call Moscow. "It didn't work. I lifted the second ((phone)), the third, the fourth, the fifth. Nothing." All his communications had been...