Word: vasili
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...Cuban missile confrontation was the whole watershed. The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister [Vasili] Kuznetsov told John McCloy, who had been Kennedy's disarmament adviser, 'We agreed to pull out, but you Americans will never be able to do this to us again.' "After that began the massive Soviet buildup of nuclear arms." We had a policy of building 1,000 weapons, and we thought that if they built up to 1,000 as well, that would be all right, a standoff. What happened is that they didn't stop at 1,000. That is the situation that confronted me when...
...disgruntled kgb archivist Vasili Mitrokhin walked into the British embassy in Latvia and handed over a sample of what the fbi would later call "the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." The files revealed the details of many Soviet espionage operations and unmasked kgb agents around the world. Wide-ranging counterespionage operations were mounted, including a lengthy hunt for the alleged asio spy. "This wasn't just another piece of information from a defector," says Canberrabased intelligence expert Des Ball. "This happened to be the first categoric information that the KGB had in fact penetrated asio...
...bogged down in Russia's vast expanses. So do reformers. They are defeated by geography and by the millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms aim to transform Russia, notes the country's greatest historian, Vasili Klyuchevsky, but they end up being transformed by Russia. Putin can cut Berezovsky down to size. He can jail oligarchs, scare governors and level Chechen villages. But actually transforming Russia will take more than just political will and cunning. It will also require the kind of good fortune and luck that...