Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result is not just what Yugoslavia's Communist-turned-critic, Milovan Djilas, denounced 24 years ago as a "new class"; it is a new aristocracy. Among its most visible and prestigious members are the military. According to Johns Hopkins University Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, "The Soviet military elite has become a privileged and self-perpetuating caste. As just one indication, 70% of the Odessa High Artillery Military School graduates a few years ago were sons of active duty officers...
Although Moscow's latest peace overtures were obviously self-serving, experts from a wide variety of backgrounds also saw a sincere desire for some arms control behind the latest Soviet peace moves. According to Dimitri Simes, a Soviet emigre and scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Moscow seriously wants negotiations but expects little progress as long as the Americans refuse to revive the overall SALT negotiations...
...Some effects may be undesirable. The boycott may help create even more of a cold war climate in the U.S.S.R.; Soviet leaders may exploit the atmosphere, as they have in the past, conjuring up socialist fervor to counter the threat from the West. It is also possible, predicts Dimitri Simes, an analyst at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, that the Kremlin will use alienation from the West to justify greater repression and internal control...
...across the Soviet border could hardly equal those confronting G.I.s embattled 10,000 miles from the U.S. (to say nothing of the Soviet regime's ability to crush all domestic antiwar criticism), the Afghanistan adventure could become more than Moscow bargained for. One thing the U.S. could do, suggests Dimitri Simes, a Russian emigre who is a Soviet affairs expert at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is to launch...
...former position as the only real superpower merely reflects historical developments over which Washington had little, if any, control. Among them: the economic recovery and boom in Western Europe and Japan, the formation of the oil cartel and the Kremlin's determination to attain military parity with the U.S. Dimitri Simes points out that potential Third World targets for Soviet intervention have existed since the decolonization movement of the early 1960s. What has changed has been Moscow's military ability to take advantage of such opportunities. Says Simes: "The Soviet leaders are still prudent and conservative men. But what seems...