Word: pyotr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, there was speculation in the Western press that famed Nuclear Scientist Pyotr Kapitsa had played a crucial role in the bomb's development. But Kapitsa, according to Khrushchev, refused to get involved in military research. Here is Khrushchev's version of their relationship...
...they beat me, I will admit anything," Soviet Historian Pyotr Yakir told a journalist before he was arrested last year. "I know this from my former experience in the camps. But you'll know it won't be the real me speaking...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin went on trial in Moscow last week charged with subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...
...campaign against "liberal" intellectuals. Only last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact that is believed to have contributed to his new troubles...
...leadership reshuffle was masterly. Scheduled to make historic visits to West Germany in May and to the U.S. in June, Brezhnev will now take off with the fullest possible domestic backing for his pursuit of detente. The two Politburo members dismissed (the official phrase was "relieved of duty")-Pyotr Shelest and Gennady Voronov-have been notable opponents of his diplomatic initiatives, as well as of some of his domestic efforts. Among the four men promoted -Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, KGB (secret police) Chief Yuri Andropov and Leningrad Party Secretary Grigory Romanov-at least two are expected...