Word: propagandists
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DIED. ALEKSANDR YAKOVLEV, 81, Communist-turned-democratic-reformer known as the "Godfather of Glasnost" for his role in formulating and promoting Mikhail Gorbachev's program of political liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1980s; in Moscow. After rising through the ranks of the Communist Party as a propagandist and censor, Yakovlev embraced perestroika, or restructuring, and supported political competition, encouraged artists and freedom of the press, and repeatedly publicized abuses perpetrated during the Soviet...
...copiers. The Soviets even decorated the corridor walls with framed photographs of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva under the neatly stenciled label AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS. Soviet officials offered daily briefings for news-starved correspondents. "I welcome you with all my heart to this press center," said the grayhaired Soviet propagandist Albert Vlasov with perhaps a trifle too much earnestness...
...Four, the influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; on April 21, in an undisclosed location. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," Zhang, his trusted propagandist and deputy, led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and jailing of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were arrested. He was later tried and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...influential ring of radical Maoists, including Mao's wife Jiang Qing, behind the excesses of Mao's 1966-76 Cultural Revolution; of cancer; in an undisclosed location, although he lived in Shanghai. When a politically threatened Mao started the revolution to cleanse the nation of "bourgeois remnants," his trusted propagandist and deputy led the effort. The ensuing terror, including the assault and imprisonment of legions of perceived enemies, ended in October 1976, a month after Mao's death, when Zhang and his comrades were arrested. He was later tried and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Soviet propagandist's delight. The Soviets play the Nazi-West Germany theme night and day. It is false. West Germany's honorable history is its refutation. Why then a visit that cannot fail symbolically to affirm...