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That is one trait Nitze has in common with Kvitsinsky. The son of an emigrant Polish engineer, Kvitsinsky grew up in Siberia. Assigned to East Germany from 1959 to 1965 and to West Germany since 1978, he is one of Moscow's large corps of German experts. It may, indeed, be the reason Kvitsinsky was chosen for the Geneva assignment. With his impressive command of German language, history and culture, he will be well placed to promote the Soviet Union's image as a peace-loving nation to West German missile opponents through the press and television...
That accord is part of the largest commercial deal ever made between East and West: an estimated $15 billion plan to construct a 3,000-mile gas pipeline that will stretch from the icy reaches of Siberia to the heart of Western Europe. The venture is basically a pipeline-for-gas swap. The West will provide the materials and technology to build the structure in exchange for the huge quantities of natural gas that the pipeline will carry...
...Pole what the Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1980. Can anybody seriously maintain that the Poles underestimate the danger? Just the opposite...
...festival to be held in the Soviet Union. Officials have painfully mixed feelings about pop culture and its musical expression, sometimes denouncing it as decadent, sometimes going along. When the Yerevan festival was approved, young Soviets came from as far away as the Baltic republics, central Russia and even Siberia. They luxuriated in the distinctive sounds of such national pop superstars as Stas Namin, 30, Gunnar Graps, 29, and his Magnetic Band, and Valeri Leontiev, 32, a booted, bolero-suited dancing rocker whose performance falls somewhere between those of Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...Sergei compound the crime by strangling Zinovy. When the village drunk later stumbles across Zinovy's body, he alerts the police at the moment when Katerina and Sergei are celebrating their wedding. Under arrest, Katerina bribes a guard to let her visit Sergei during the long march to Siberia. Her erstwhile lover, however, blames her for his predicament and already has eyes for another female prisoner. This is too much for Katerina, who pushes the other woman off a bridge into a swiftly moving stream and then leaps in herself. Lady Macbeth ends with a desolate chorus of convicts...