Soviet Union: The Hard-Liner

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Suslov's passing may have caught the Soviet leadership at an awkward moment, uncertain as it is over Brezhnev's succession. But the ideologue did not die without suppressing one other messy complication and, at the same time, providing for himself a fitting legacy. As his last major task, he pressured the Polish authorities to establish martial law last December.

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