Word: shelepin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, throwing a soulful glance at visiting Soviet Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin, Nasser coyly dropped his punch line: "We shall not sell our independence for 30, 40 or even 50 million pounds." The price was indubitably high, but Shelepin must have got the message...
...ALEKSANDR NIKOLAEVICH SHELEPIN, 46, hard-eyed ex-boss of the secret police, somewhat "sanitized" since Stalin's days, who remains in many ways Russia's top cop. His was the most remarkable of the new promotions, since he leapfrogged over the heads of oldtimers waiting around for membership to become the youngest member of the party Presidium. A persuasive pragmatist, Shelepin talked 350,000 Russian youths into volunteering for work in the virgin lands, served as Nikita's iceman when Khrushchev decided to re-refrigerate the thaw in Soviet art and literature two years-ago. Significantly, Shelepin...
...appointments held some other clues. No professional military men were elevated to full membership on the Central Committee, thus indicating that the army has only limited pull with the new leadership. By contrast, one of eight new men elected to full Central Committee membership was Vladimir Semichastny, who is Shelepin's successor as head of the secret police. This promotion, coming on top of Shelepin's own, suggested to some Kremlinologists that a new era of the cop may be starting in Russia. The new rulers, though in favor of Khrushchevian "peaceful coexistence" and economic liberalism, are evidently...
...Soviet superiors, Stashinsky was a hero: he was flown back to Moscow, received the Order of the Red Banner signed personally by Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. At a lavish stag party, Secret Police Boss Aleksander Shelepin himself gave him the high award...
Tragic Opportunity. That night Stashinsky announced that he intended to marry Inge Pohl. Reluctantly, Shelepin & Co. agreed, though they would have preferred a Russian girl for their boy. Stashinsky was ordered to stay in Moscow and Inge, who by now knew her husband's real job, joined him there. Soon she persuaded Stashinsky to flee to the West, but it seemed impossible. Their Moscow apartment was bugged, and often they would communicate only by notes...