Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know if this story makes a political statement about relations between the Soviet Union and the people of their client states in Eastern Europe and I'm inclined to feel that it does and doesn't. Certainly in Czechoslovakia, and in Romania to a lesser extent, resentment toward the USSR runs high, but in other countries, East Germany and Poland, for example, there is more of a desire among people, particularly students, to convey a sense of awareness to the Westerner, a feeling that, as one East Berliner put it, "We're not being taken in. We have both feet...
Amalrik was arrested in 1970 for allegedly slandering the government in his book, "Will Russia Survive Until 1984?" In that book Amarlik cites the hostility between Russia's different ethnic groups and the eventual war with China as factors that will tear the USSR apart...
...with which Ivan Dejmal has been persecuted long after he was barred from any political or academic activity, even when he was reduced to waiting passively for any further repressive measures his tormentors might choose to subject him to." Harvard Chapter of the Committee Against Political Repression in the USSR and Eastern Europe
...well-known dissident Soviet author, was sentenced in Kaluga last week to four years of banishment, probably to Siberia. The story of that case has not yet appeared in the West, but it will break this week in the latest issue of A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR, a bimonthly magazine published in Manhattan. Since its founding two years ago last month, the little Chronicle, which is edited by Valery Chalidze and Pavel Litvinov, a pair of liberal Soviet exiles now living in the U.S., has become one of the most carefully read and respected Russian journals anywhere...
...Soviet Union, and Sadat is signalling Kissinger in less than subtle fashion that Egypt may re-activate its recently dormant alliance with the Soviet Union at any moment, if American policy is not satisfactory to him. With Soviet ships passing through the canal, the chances of the USSR supplying Sadat with the arms he has requested but not received are good. The Soviet Union opposes the Kissinger step-by-step approach resenting the fact that it may be frozen out of any role in the eventual peace settlement. And it has gone out of its way to sabotage the disengagement...