Word: suslov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informers, once discovered, were spirited out of the country along with their families-but not before they had disclosed Moscow's hand in the martial-law crackdown. Reagan has followed the cabled details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back in Moscow, as they worriedly waited for the changes that inevitably follow any unexpected...
...battle for the succession entered a new, uncharacteristically visible phase last month with the death of Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, whose influence in the Kremlin had been second only to Brezhnev's. Says an experienced diplomat in Moscow: "While Suslov was alive, he kept the lid on pretty strongly." Alexei Shibaev, 67, a protégé of both Suslov and Brezhnev, lost his job as head of the Central Council of Trade Unions last week. According to rumors, as many as 4,000 Suslov-backed officials may have been fired since his death. Chernenko has moved aggressively...
According to reliable sources, Suslov had ordered KGB General Semyon Tsvigun to halt the investigations in an effort to shield Brezhnev. Thwarted and angry, Tsvigun is said to have killed himself. Following Suslov's death, the KGB resumed its inquiries and the scandals exploded...
...SEEMED A Soviet Republic determined to forget those years that honored Suslov with a burial within the Kremlin Wall. hallowed precincts a disgraced Khruschev could never hope for. Soviet press reports, to be sure, would only stress the positive side of Suslov's history, honoring him as a hero of the nation's ongoing revolution, a devoted practitioner of the ideology that achieved greatness for Russia. Nothing, if not the elaborate ceremony and apparent forgetfulness, begs questioning the most unseemly aspects of the man's life--his indifference to those of more than a million others. For cruelty and injustice...
...they civilian murders in El Salvador or pogroms in Pol Pot's Cambodia. They add up to a greyer picture of senselessness in the episodes staged by the marionettes of our own political culture, posing depressive backdrop to their stage play. What deserves note in the episode of Suslov's funeral is the apparent ease with which the strategists of Soviet propaganda could obliterate the history of the purges and massacre and provide for their audience an affected display of reverence, a purified measure of the poison he delivered. Differences in interpretation are not a matter of nuance, unless differing...