Word: soviet
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This year it is Ilya Ehrenburg's turn in the spotlight. Ehrenburg, probably unknown to most Americans only 30 years after his death, was one of the most famous Soviet writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, serving as the USSR's main cultural emissary to the West under Stalin and Khrushchev. While he wrote dozens of novels and books of verse, he became best known as a correspondent for Izvestia and other Soviet newspapers during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when his fiercely anti-Fascist sentiments made him a favorite of Red Army soldiers...
...biographer, it is perhaps to be expected that Rubinstein becomes his advocate, trying to acquit him of the moral taint of collaboration. Rubinstein's thesis is a reasonable and, for the most part, well-supported one: namely, that Ehrenburg used his public image as "a harsh spokesman for Soviet interests" as "a cover to pursue his ultimate goal: to challenge the limits of Soviet censorship, revive Russia's connection to European culture, and restore to living memory the names and works of those whom Stalin first killed and then erased from history...
Perry himself traveled to a ballistic missile base in the former Soviet Union to oversee its destruction...
...reason the U.S. must carefully watch the world's nuclear arsenals is that the policy of detente that defined its relationship with the former Soviet Union may prove ineffective against newly-armed, independent countries...
Perry related a conversation he had with a defense minister from one of the former Soviet Republics in which he emphasized the importance of democracy, the second key component to "preventative defense...