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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union
Soviet leader and General Secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Brezhnev addresses the East German communists Oct. 6, 1979, in East Berlin during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the ...
National Review9y
On Iran: Don’t Trust, Never Trust, and Verify
President Ronald Reagan repeatedly told then–Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that we would “trust but verify” any treaty with the Soviet Union. And we insisted on agreeing on ...
The American Conservative6mon
Did Communism Really Fall?
Even in 1989, I have to remind myself, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), demonstrating ruthlessness that the last Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev fortunately lacked, had placed a giant ...
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'Not one inch eastward.' Why Russia opposes NATO expansion
In 1983, there were rumors in Europe that then-Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov was also considering joining NATO, but ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev
play Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union In 1985 Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the age of 54. Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Soviet ...
The Atlantic4y
Reagan and the Russians
By the time Gorbachev became General Secretary, in March of 1985, he was deeply committed to domestic reform and fundamental changes in Soviet foreign policy. "I, like many others," he observed ...
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An appreciation: How physicist Evgeny Velikhov helped end the US-Soviet nuclear arms race
[6] Banning nuclear tests In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Central Committee and immediately launched a broad campaign to reform the Soviet Union and its foreign policy ...