Red Flag Rising

November 14th, 2008 by zen

Fortunately for Gorshakov, his ideas coincided with the noontide of Brezhnev’s faction, which was rooted in military heavy industry, the Dnepropetrovsk mafia and a national security axis of the power ministries – Defense, Foreign Ministry and the KGB which were controlled by Brezhnev’s then allies and proteges, Ustinov, Gromyko and Andropov. Gorshakov’s vision of expanding Soviet reach abroad also had appeal to party hardliners like Mikhail Suslov and Boris Ponomarev who were deeply interested in supporting radical third world regimes and adding the Ethiopias, Angolas and Nicaragua’s to the “Socialist camp”

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  1. deichmans:

    November 15th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    Many thanks, Zen — and kudos to you for adding the brilliant strategic context of "TSPotS’s" fortuitous timing within the nomenklatura.

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