Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is an uneasy mood in Moscow these days, caused by reverberations from the shots fired by a would-be as sassin at the cosmonauts' parade in the Kremlin last month. In a country that is purposefully fed warnings of constant plots, the official Soviet dismissal of the gunman as a schizophrenic has not put the Russians at ease. Twice in So viet history, assassination attempts have served as a pretext for savage repression. The unsuccessful attempt on Lenin in 1918 triggered the Red Terror, in which thousands of Russians fell be fore Bolshevik firing squads; the killing...
...Provocation. So far, there is no sign that the recent shooting will be used for similar purposes. But Russians are alarmed by the Tass description of the event as "a provocation." In Communist jargon, that is the term for an anti-Soviet political act that is usually the result of a conspiracy and consequently calls for severe countermeasures...
...Boss Leonid Brezhnev. In fact, there is speculation that the gunman fired on the auto carrying Cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy because his heavy jowls and bushy eyebrows resemble those of Brezhnev. The most prevalent rumor in Moscow has it that the shooting was the result of a plot by the Soviet military chiefs to kill the civilian leaders and seize control. Another version is that the shooting was part of a KGB (secret police) plot to buttress the argument of Kremlin hawks that the country needs to be placed under sterner rule...
...Soviet officials have refused even to release the name of the prisoner. One report identifies him as an army engineer lieutenant in his twenties named Ilyin, who comes from Leningrad-where Kirov was assassinated. The week after the shooting, the Kremlin leaders failed to show up at the ceremonies in Leningrad that marked the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the city's World War II siege. Many Russians feared that Leningrad might once again be punished for supposedly spawning another assassination conspiracy...
...from applying the Hickenlooper Amendment by doing an abrupt left face in their foreign policy. In the past four months, Lima's military regime has established diplomatic or commercial relations with Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Two weeks ago, the Peruvians agreed to exchange ambassadors with the Soviet Union, leaving only three South American countries (Bolivia, Paraguay and Venezuela) that do not have diplomatic ties with Russia...