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...early 1960s, however, trouble began to flare in the northeast. "Since June 1962," notes a Soviet Foreign Ministry official, Mikhail S. Kapitsa, "provocations on the borders of the U.S.S.R. have become systematic." For their part, the Chinese claim that in the past two years alone, Soviet border guards intruded onto Chen Pao 16 times. According to Peking, nearby Chiliching and Kapotzu islands have also suffered such intrusions "on many occasions." The Chinese also charge that Soviet aircraft frequently violate their airspace. In the past three years, Moscow has built up its strength along its Asian borders to an estimated...
...saying that "present conditions in Soviet concentration camps are just as terrible as under Stalin." Among the few spectators allowed to attend her trial was a high-ranking officer of the organization that, among its other grim tasks, ran those camps for over 40 years. He was Colonel Mikhail Belogorodsky of the KGB, Irina's father...
...three: Premier Aleksei Kosygin, Trade Union Head Aleksandr Shelepin, and Party Secretary Mikhail Suslov...
...Silence. No other first novel has ever had such an exclusive private printing, or such an exclusive first audience. Khrushchev wanted to use the book as a weapon in his own power struggle with the hardliners, Mikhail Suslov and Frol Kozlov. By Khrushchev's order, the script was set in type and 20 copies were run off on the Swedish-built presses the Kremlin reserves for state documents. The copies were distributed to members of the Presidium. Then, at Khrushchev's summons, the Presidium met. The members sat at a long table, each with his copy of the novel...
...Soviets are rehabilitating Mikhail Bulgakov, the satirical novelist and playwright who died in 1940, but so far they have not screwed their courage up to the point of publishing The Heart of a Dog, a novel recently spirited out of Russia in manuscript form. Bulgakov's complex and comical allegory, The Master and Margarita, was judged fit to be published in his homeland, after some ideological laundering. That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky. But these satires of Soviet life were devious enough so that the literary bureaucracy could pretend that they were not satire...