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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Post-Soviet security bloc to discuss appointment of new secretary general at Astana summit
The Collective Security Treaty Organization will discuss the appointment of a new secretary general at the Astana summit scheduled to be held on November 8 YEREVAN, November 2. /TASS/. The ...