Word: yuri
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...address to the party plenum. Noting that the Soviet Union was ready "for honest talks on the basis of equality and equal security," Chernenko also warned that "we will not be scared by threats." His voice sounded thin and quavering as he said, "Farewell, our dear friend and comrade, Yuri Vladimirovich! Your bright image will remain with us forever...
Even before Yuri Andropov's death, Reagan had unilaterally declared a cease-fire in the war of words. In a TIME interview on Jan. 2, Reagan vowed that he would not use phrases like "focus of evil" in reference to the U.S.S.R. again. On Jan. 16, he gave a speech conjuring up the image of a folksy get-together among Jim and Sally and Ivan and Anya, who quickly bridge the ideological divide between their governments. The Soviet leader made fun of Reagan's rhetorical tactics and challenged him to match his "speeches" with "practical deeds." Nonetheless...
...reason Westerners have had such difficulty analyzing and describing Konstantin Chernenko is that the Kremlin's penchant for secrecy as well as the lack of a real electoral process tends to cloak the private lives of Soviet rulers in multiple shadows. Yuri Andropov was dead before the world knew he had a living wife; she suddenly appeared at his funeral. Another reason for the difficulty is that by the time a new man achieves leadership, the Soviet mythmakers have been long at work. Last week, for instance, there were reports in Moscow that Chernenko was often seen walking and even...
...roll with happy abandon, but they do not demand the climate of freedom that spawned the Western youth culture in the first place. Their lack of interest in politics was evident last week in the absence of young faces in the procession to bid farewell to Yuri Andropov. "What goes on in the leadership is remote from our lives," said Volodya, 26, an engineer. "Besides, nobody asks our opinion...
...today's youths are less passionate about Communist ideology than their forebears were, they are no less patriotic. "We have grown up without the privations of war, so this has allowed us to think more about ourselves and give our personal desires more importance," says Yuri, 28, a gas-drilling technician from the Caucasus. "But we are just as ready to defend our motherland...