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...Some American observers dispute that. As they point out, all too often in the past there have been rumors that Americans should be more flexible in their policies towards the Soviet Union because one Soviet leader or another found himself in difficulty. There were even such rumors about Stalin. Yet the fact remains that there were similar rumors about Krushchev just before he was deposed...
TIME's coverage of dissidents in the Soviet Union goes back nearly 60 years to a 1927 story that reported on Leon Trotsky. Though "excommunicated from the party," TIME wrote of the man who was later assassinated in Mexico on Joseph Stalin's orders, Trotsky "is the leader of the opposition and is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism." Since then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy...
...true believers the change could not have been more startling if Joseph Stalin had bought stock in General Motors. Ronald Reagan, who built his political career by trashing arms-control agreements and demanding a linkage between American cooperation and Soviet good behavior, appears more interested in treaties and a second summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev than in punishing the Soviets for their Daniloff perfidy...
...which the KGB agents demanded to know whom he was "really" working for, Daniloff was stripped of his belt and shoelaces and placed in an 8-ft. by 10-ft. "isolator" cell. Though American reporters in Moscow have been harassed, arrested and expelled in the past, not since Joseph Stalin's time has a correspondent spent a night in a Soviet prison...
...during the reign of Czar Nicholas II, when he accompanied his father on an expedition that reached Siberia. His last was in 1983, at the invitation of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. In between he negotiated his own private mineral concessions with Trotsky and spent more time with Stalin than any other American. Nikita Khrushchev liked the old capitalist so much that he jokingly offered...