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...that we were pressured into the cease-fire by the Russians, who in turn were being pressured by the Americans. Hah! The decision was made right here, at the moment of the surrender in Dacca. We were able to inform the Soviet Union right away only because Mr. Kuznetsov [the Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister] happened to be here. I am not a person to be pressured-by anybody or any nation...
...eloquent final statement at the trial, the 27-year-old wife of Eduard Kuznetsov, one of the two who were condemned to death, said: "Soviet law should not regard as treason a desire to live in another country. This desire, sanctified by 2,000 years of hope, will never leave me." Sentenced to ten years at hard labor, she concluded with a verse from Psalm 137, "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither...
...part of a scheme masterminded by Beria and his "battering ram," former Premier Georgy Malenkov; the object was to wreck the careers of a troika of promising young men whom they regarded as a threat to their own eventual ascendancy. Two of those men, N.A. Voznesensky and A.A. Kuznetsov, were arrested and shot. The third, says Khrushchev, "was hanging by a thread. I simply can't explain how he was saved from being exterminated." His name: Aleksei Kosygin, now Soviet Premier...
Some Western diplomats were concerned that the Cambodian venture might even give the feuding Soviets and Chinese an area in which they could cooperate-for the first time in a decade. According to reports from Moscow, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who last week returned to Peking, carried instructions to seek a joint Sino-Soviet approach on Indochina. Furthermore, when North Viet Nam's Party Leader Le Duan left Moscow for Peking after last month's Lenin centennial, he reportedly carried a Soviet suggestion to Chairman Mao that the two countries should get together, at least over...
...adjustments, but the Chinese insist on a broader approach: a mutual troop withdrawal from the disputed areas and a Soviet admission that the present frontiers are based on "unequal treaties" dating back to czarist times. The Chinese were also miffed because the Soviet negotiator, First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, returned to the talks a week later than he had promised. When he arrived in Peking two weeks ago, the Chinese administered an unmistakable snub by sending a second-echelon official to greet him at the airport...