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...face of Moscow's injunctions. Only six days before the plenum began, hard-lining Soviet Ideologue Mikhail Suslov had flown to Warsaw to deliver what was presumed to be a stiff warning to hold the line against further democratization. Shortly after that, a sizzling article published by TASS, the official Soviet news agency, charged unnamed Polish party reformists with "revisionism"-one of the gravest epithets in the Communist lexicon and one that was invoked against the reform-minded Czechoslovak leadership in 1968 just before Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague...
...true Polish patriots," would be able "to give a fitting rebuff to the designs of the enemies of the socialist system." The statement seemed to offer Warsaw's leaders one more chance to restore order on their own. Shortly after the speech came another hopeful sign: TASS announced the end of the Warsaw Pact maneuvers...
...ever since April 7, when Leonid Brezhnev, his chest heavy with medals, stood in Prague's Palace of Culture and informed 1,700 attentive delegates to the 16th congress of the Czechoslovak Party that he was confident that the unruly Poles would come to their senses after all. TASS then announced that the three-week-old Warsaw Pact military exercises, with their World's Fair name of Soyuz '81, were coming to a close. Brezhnev's speech was all the more welcome following the growls of Czechoslovak President Gust...
...Poland's government and workers squared off once again, the Soviet Union broke an ominous silence on the Polish question with some even more ominous warnings. In a sizzling attack on "anti-socialist forces within Solidarity," TASS called the general strike threat "a declaration of war." Similar charges echoed throughout the East bloc. Noted a senior Western diplomat in Moscow: "It looks like a collision course, and the Soviets are urging the Polish government not to shrink from...
...TASS provides most of the material for Radio Moscow, the Soviet version of the Voice of America. In the past two years the broadcasts have been enlivened by sprinkling Soviet-made jazz and rock music recordings among the turgid recitations of editorials. Radio Moscow propaganda is much less vitriolic than the printed press; a Soviet delegation returning from a visit to the U.S. might be quoted by Radio Moscow as saying that the Americans they met share with them an aim of world peace. The broadcasts in English are now particularly subtle, using announcers who try to sound indistinguishable from...