Word: suslov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither he nor Mikhail Suslov, the senior party ideologist, was at the meeting ((at which the Soviet leaders decided to crush the Hungarian revolution with tanks)). They were in Hungary, trying to deal with the situation that was developing there. Mikoyan flew home only after we'd made our decision. His apartment and mine were on the same floor. When I told him about our decision, he objected strenuously that armed intervention was not right and that it would undermine the reputation of our government and party...
...Only Suslov squawked. He wanted to hold everything in check. "You can't do this!" he said. "That's all there is to it. How will the people understand?" My answer then and now is that the people will always distinguish good from...