Word: sovietskaya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given a large apartment, a car and a driver. In Gori, the museum honoring her father opened a section devoted to Svetlana, featuring letters and presents they exchanged in her youth. When she arrived in Moscow three weeks ago to arrange her departure, she and Olga moved into the Sovietskaya, a hotel where foreign dignitaries normally stay...
Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
...American television crews were lying in wait outside the exclusive Sovietskaya Hotel last week, when the frumpy woman in fur hat and buttoned-up coat appeared in the company of a burly escort. Since Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, 58, returned to Moscow last month after 17 years in exile in the West, she has been playing hide-and-seek with Western reporters. She reacted in anger to the latest ambush. "I am not going to talk to you, not one word," she snapped. "You have no right. You are uncivilized people. You are savages." When asked about...
...line with Andropov's determination to impose better labor discipline, the daily Sovietskaya Rossiya announced a new drive to round up alcoholics, tramps, drug addicts and other "social parasites" for treatment in special camps, to be followed by "corrective labor." The newspaper Trud (Labor) said that industrial managers would be held responsible for reporting alcoholics to the authorities...
...hosts are worried not only about what sort of nonsports material will be beamed to those outside the motherland, but also about propagandizing within their borders. For months they have been warning citizens about disruptions being plotted by the CIA, "Zionists and fascists." Only last week the party paper, Sovietskaya Rossiya, charged that U.S. and NATO intelligence services had set up special schools to train dozens of agents to visit Moscow disguised as tourists with "anti-Soviet material" hidden in false-bottomed suitcases and in their underwear...