Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping order at home but of advancing Soviet interests abroad with growing sophistication. In contrast to predecessors who used mass terror to suppress dissent, Andropov employed a broad range of punishments selectively tailored for each nonconformist and effectively crushed the dissident movement, which he once dismissed as a "skillful propaganda invention...
...push in Stockholm for improvements in the present system, which requires a nation to give notice of military maneuvers of 25,000 troops or more at least 21 days before they begin. The fate of such initiatives may depend on whether the Warsaw Pact nations distract the conference with propaganda blasts against the new NATO missiles or high-sounding but insubstantial "declaratory proposals" against aggression. In a press conference for Europeans last week, Shultz warned against expecting immediate improve ments in Soviet-American relations. "We are prepared for a thaw," he said, "but whether there is one will reflect what...
...floor of the station. The flames destroyed important electronic monitoring devices and control panels, but no one was injured. The Soviets denied that the accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry: "All the contentions by Western propaganda that the pipeline supposedly will not be ready by the scheduled date are nothing but an attempt to engage in wishful thinking." But Western experts contend that the fire at the Urengoi station, the largest of 41 planned compressor units, will delay the project perhaps six months. "We believe that the pipeline...
...strains in the Western alliance. Though the U.S. has won the first round of the Euromissile controversy, the battle is far from over. Full deployment of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles will take five years, during which Moscow will keep up its propaganda, seeking to appeal to the people of Western Europe over the heads of their governments...
...film The Day After [Dec. 5] is not a movie. It is a three-hour commercial for the nuclear-freeze movement and free propaganda for the Soviet Union...