...republics. Moreover, there was real concern over "subversive" contacts with the West.39 38. "Address of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, MS Gorbachev on Central Television," Pravda, July 2, 1989. 39. Indications...

...Exercise planners also presumed that China had started a war against the Soviet Union. On instruction of the general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and chairman of the Defense Council of the USSR, Comrade Leonid Brezhnev, an operational-strategic war game involving the...