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...week went on, Moscow wasted little time exploiting the growing tensions in the alliance. The Kremlin warned West Europeans not to bow to U.S. pressure in such matters as modernizing NATO's tactical nuclear arsenal and boycotting this summer's Moscow Olympic Games. In Paris, Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko stated that unless the allies resist, they would be turned into "an instrument for America's global policy" and would allow the U.S. to "attain strategic objectives on the backs of others." When Bonn indicated that it would probably follow the U.S. lead and boycott the Olympics, the Soviet Ambassador...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned that his archives, which he needs to continue his series of novels about modern...
Cruel Mockery. The day of his arrest began as a normal, busy family day. While Solzhenitsyn worked, his mother-in-law looked after his five-month-old son Stepan; his two older boys, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 16 months, played in the park near by. As dusk fell, seven policemen entered the building and hurried up the stone steps to Apartment 169. Solzhenitsyn's wife was told that the men wanted to talk to her husband. Their leader announced that he had the authority to take Solzhenitsyn with him ?by force, if necessary. "There were seven of them," Natalya...
Assassination also became part of the game. Russian exile groups in West Germany, particularly the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), worked actively to overthrow the Soviet government. To stop them, a Russian KGB spy named Bogdan Stashinsky was sent to murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven...
...streets of the Mala Strana quarter to the gates of Hradcany. Waving red-white-and-blue Czechoslovak flags that they had torn from buildings festooned for the anniversary, the youths shouted what their elders no longer dared: "We want freedom!" "Better dead than shame!" When they spotted Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko's black Chaika limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment, the gates threatened to give way, but a squad of Czech police and militia managed to push the crowd...