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The government ignored his letter and refused to let him initiate a public discussion of ABMs in the Soviet press.
Although no Soviet critics had read the banned novel, Doctor Zhivago was pilloried in the State-owned press.
Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the State owned press.
* Pravda, September 25, 1968 ; translated by Novosti, Soviet press agency.
Administration officials met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and others to press for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets.
In January, 1947, fear of Soviet and American intentions led to a secret meeting of senior cabinet ministers, where it was decided to press ahead with the development of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, an issue which later caused a split in the Labour Party.
During 1942, Goebbels continued to press for the " final solution to the Jewish question " to be carried forward as quickly as possible now that Germany had occupied a huge swathe of Soviet territory into which all the Jews of German-controlled Europe could be deported.
But in fact, only the Soviet press used this name.
The impact of Chernenko — or the lack of it — was evident in the way in which his death was reported in the Soviet press.
Concurrently, an anti-semitic propaganda campaign, euphemistically termed the " struggle against rootless cosmopolitanism ", occurred in the Soviet press.
After Marshall's appointment in January 1947, administration officials met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and others to press for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets in their occupied zone.
He was also the principal framer of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, which promised freedom of speech, the press, assembly, religion, and the privacy of the person, his home, and his correspondence.
In the Soviet Union ( USSR ), voices against nuclear weapons were few and far between since there was no widespread Freedom of speech and Freedom of the press as political factors.
Due to the secrecy surrounding the Soviet space program at the time, many details of the spaceflight only came to light years later, and several details in the original press releases turned out to be false.
The Soviet press later reported that minutes before boarding the spacecraft Gagarin made a speech: " Dear friends, you who are close to me, and you whom I do not know, fellow Russians, and people of all countries and all continents: in a few minutes a powerful space vehicle will carry me into the distant realm of space.
Although some contemporary Soviet sources stated that Gagarin had parachuted separately to the ground, the Soviet Union officially insisted that he had landed with the Vostok ; the government forced the cosmonaut to lie in press conferences, and the FAI certified the flight.
* September 6 – William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, two American cryptologists, announce their defection to the Soviet Union at a press conference in Moscow.
Despite the hostility of the mainstream official press and intimidation by Soviet Estonian authorities, dozens of local citizens ' committees were elected by popular initiative all over the country.
In Moscow, the Soviet press agency TASS said the " evil empire " words demonstrated that the Reagan administration " can think only in terms of confrontation and bellicose, lunatic anti-communism.
Early in 1998, reports of a forthcoming book allegedly containing revelations about the origins of the so-called " Zinoviev letter ," based on information from Soviet archives led to renewed press speculation and parliamentary questions.
During training, Komarov lived at the TsPK ( which would later be nicknamed Star City by the Soviet press ) with his wife Valentina and their two children Yevgeny and Irina.
Barbusse subsequently led a violent press campaign against his former friend Panait Istrati-a Romanian writer who had expressed criticism of the Soviet state.
The Soviet press released the first photos taken of the surface on 29 October — pictures that showed the Sea of Rains and the Aristarchus crater.
The United States team's 4 – 3 win over the Soviet team, which came into the 1980 Games having won 4 consecutive Olympic gold medals, became known as the " Miracle on Ice " in the US press.

Soviet and portrayed
In The Doctor of Stalingrad ( 1958 ) dealing with German POWs in the Soviet Union, Germans are portrayed as more civilized, humane and intelligent than the Soviets, who are showed for the most part as Mongol savages who brutalized the German POWs.
A genre known as " chernukha " ( from the Russian word for " black "), including films such as Little Vera, portrayed the harsh realities of Soviet life.
In the Soviet 1982 miniseries Niccolo Paganini the musician is portrayed by the Armenian actor Vladimir Msryan.
In the context of the Cold War, the WFTU was often portrayed as a Soviet front organization.
Her Majesty's Canadian Submarine Ojibwa portrayed the Soviet S-270.
The Soviet Union seems to have relatively little influence, whereas the Lunar Authority itself is portrayed as corrupt.
He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as 1964's Fail-Safe, in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges all out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U. S. Air Force bombers, in the tense, and timely cold-war thriller.
It was portrayed more critically in the Soviet Union ( which saw the Underground State as an enemy ) and some post-Soviet states ( primarily Lithuania and Ukraine, where military groups who cooperated with Germans against the Soviets and / or were trying to separate from Polish control also clashed with the Polish resistance ).
The plight of the Aral coast was portrayed in the 1989 film Psy (" Dogs ") by Soviet director Dmitry Svetozarov.
The 1987 Soviet experimental film Assa has a subplot revolving around Paul's murder ; Paul is portrayed by Dmitry Dolinin.
Meanwhile, Ames continued to meet openly with his contact at the Russian embassy, Sergey Dmitriyevich Chuvakhin, and for a time, Ames summarized for the CIA and FBI the progress of what he portrayed as an attempt to recruit the Soviet.
* The role of a Soviet sniper is also portrayed in the game Call of Duty: World at War which contains scenes directly taken from Enemy at the Gates.
In the Soviet animated series Nu Pogodi, the wolf, commonly translated into English as Volk (), is portrayed as a hooligan who eagerly turns to vandalism, abuses minors, breaks laws and is a heavy smoker.
Although unnamed or of fictional identity, the leader of the Soviet Union is portrayed as the lead antagonist in several novels.
In the 2009 movie Watchmen, he is portrayed by Gary Houston in an early scene interviewing Pat Buchanan ( played by James M. Connor ) and Eleanor Clift ( played by Mary Ann Burger ) about the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Co-opting Russian nationalism, he attacked the infiltration of Western ideals into Russian society and portrayed Russia as a great nation that had been dismantled from within by traitors in cahoots with Western capitalists who sought the dissolution of Soviet power in order to exploit Russia's boundless resources.
Schori is sympathetically portrayed as Peter Sorman in the fellow 1968-radical Jan Guillou's Hamilton novels, with a clearly anti-imperialist attitude, at least as critical against the United States as against China or the Soviet Union.
Soviet media portrayed the Soviet intervention as a necessary means of protecting the Communist uprising from outside opposition.
* Soviet defector Boris Vaslov, portrayed by Ernest Borgnine
The Nazis were not portrayed as sworn enemies anymore, and the media of the Soviet Union presented the Germans as neutrals, blaming Poland, the United Kingdom and France for the start of the war.
* In the Soviet TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring, Müller was portrayed by Jewish actor Leonid Bronevoy.
* Mikhail Gorbachev-former Premier of the Soviet Union, who was portrayed as an easygoing liberal who was always giving himself time off
Wolff was portrayed by Vasily Lanovoy in the Soviet TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring in a subplot concerning Sunrise Crossword and meeting with Dulles.

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