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Re-Sovietizing Russia.(Insider Report)
During a 1991 visit to the KGB's Lubyanka Square headquarters in Moscow, writes Eric Margolis of the Toronto Sun, "I sat at the desk on which the mass murderers of the Soviet secret police--Yagoda, Yezhov, Beria--wrote orders sending over 20 million to their deaths."
During the same visit Margolis became acquainted with the younger generation of KGB generals and colonels. Most of them were from the First Chief Directorate, which conducted espionage and active measures against the West. They were undertaking a "profound revolution" in the Soviet government. "We will make Russians work at bayonet point," one of them told Margolis.
"A decade later, KGB alumni have assumed total power under former KGB ...
- Nuclear blindness: an overview of the biological weapons programs of the former...
- Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases Davis, Christopher J. July 1, 1999 700+ words
...weapons program of the former Soviet Union stretch back to statements...British but finalized by the Soviet Union. Although the Soviet Union signed the Convention at...recently as Biopreparat (Chief Directorate for Biological Preparations...
- Will the army take over? (Soviet Union)
- Magazine article from: National Review Crozier, Brian December 9, 1988 700+ words
...Communist country, and specifically in the Soviet Union? I see three options, one of which...and proclaim himself Marshal of the Soviet Union and Commander-in-Chief. (For that...odium. A "coup" of that kind in the Soviet Union is itself in fact a distinct possibility...
- U.S. agricultural leaders issue joint statement calling for most-favored-nation...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 1, 1990 700+ words
...FOR MOST-FAVORED-NATION STATUS FOR SOVIET UNION WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire...most-favored-nation status on the Soviet Union at the earliest possible time. In issuing...the press today, Block said: "The Soviet Union is our third largest agricultural customer...
- The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 3, 1991 700+ words
The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as a neo-imperialist...meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International Monetary...the biggest opponent of granting the Soviet Union full membership. it argues that associate...
- Russian Duma Votes for Reestablishing Soviet Union
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered March 15, 1996 700+ words
...Russian Duma today voted to reinstate the Soviet Union, declaring those who oversaw its dissolution...calling for the reintegration of the Soviet Union. Communists and their allies were joined...Russian parliament in 1991 that ended the Soviet Union. The Duma also passed another ...
- Intergenerational transmission and integration of repatriate families from the...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies Steinbach, Anja September 22, 2001 700+ words
...repatriate families from the former Soviet Union in Germany. The subject of intergenerational...repatriate-families from the former Soviet Union in Germany is especially meaningful...German repatriates from the former Soviet Union -- enjoys a special status in Germany...
- New special Olympics program in Soviet Union impacts thousands of lives.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 8, 1990 700+ words
NEW SPECIAL OLYMPICS PROGRAM IN SOVIET UNION IMPACTS THOUSANDS OF LIVES WASHINGTON...Special Olympics programs throughout the Soviet Union. The conference involved all 17 republics...including Moscow and Leningrad) in the Soviet Union and resulted from an unprecedented decision...
- Anniversary of Soviet Union's Breakup Stirs Emotions in Russia.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 25, 2001 700+ words
...VOLGOGRAD, Russia -- Ten years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Pyotr Alkhutov still mourns...to Volgograd, the anniversary of the Soviet Union's fall prompts conflicting emotions...the world in 1917, the breakup of the Soviet Union upended history, shattering an empire...
