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...Vladimir Sokolov, who taught Russian at Yale for 25 years, wrote anti-Semitic articles for Rech, a Nazi sponsored Russian language newspaper during World War II. But in order to enter the U.S., Sokolov signed statements that he had not abetted the German war effort and had never advocated racial or religious discrimination...
...convicted, the 71-year-old Sokolov would face deportation and lose his citizenship. Ten years ago, the Slavic Languages department at Yale received copies of the controversial articles and Sokolov resigned in the face of pressure from his colleagues...
...Communist Party Congress meeting next February, an event that occurs only once every five years, Gorbachev will push out fully half of the 300 members of the Central Committee and replace them with his own loyalists. The military has not been spared Gorbachev's housecleaning instincts. Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov, 74, has been designated only a candidate member of the Politburo rather than a full member, as his immediate predecessors were, and a number of his subordinates have been replaced. On the other hand, Gorbachev has restored to grace Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, who was removed as chief of staff...
...minute spectacle was the largest display of military might in the Soviet capital since a similar anniversary in 1965, and included military equipment never seen before in a Moscow parade: squat T-64 tanks, short-range (75 miles) SS-21 missiles and M1976 field guns. Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the Defense Minister, gave the keynote speech. "Capitalist propaganda is making strenuous efforts to falsify history . . . to belittle the role of the U.S.S.R. in the rout of the fascist invaders," he declared. "But the truth cannot be overturned. The whole world knows that it was the Soviet Union that made the decisive...
...charge of heavy industry, which includes defense plants, Romanov is considered a hardliner of the sort favored by the military. He was widely rumored to be a candidate for Defense Minister when the job opened up last year with the death of Dmitri Ustinov, but instead Marshal Sergei Sokolov was chosen. Should the reportedly ailing Sokolov retire or die, Romanov could become the next Defense Minister...