If he looks like a right-wing apparatchik and quacks like a right-wing apparatchik, he's almost surely a right-wing apparatchik.
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Pasty-faced and with tinted glasses, he is the apparatchik's apparatchik.
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So was Kellyanne Conway, who is now a White House apparatchik.
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Until a few months ago he was widely regarded as an erratic apparatchik.
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"They have escalated a tactic into a principle," huffs one senior Labour apparatchik.
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Nazarbayev, a former Soviet apparatchik, wields sweeping power and parliament is devoid of opposition.
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Mr Gorbachev's use of unnatural and hackneyed Soviet "newspeak" made him seem like an apparatchik.
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"Reince doesn't have a magic wand," one Republican National Committee apparatchik told The Associated Press.
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Why on earth would you willingly join an hierarchical apparatchik that involved hazing and paying dues?
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McCain questioned why Trump was solicitous of Vladimir Putin, whom he regarded as an unreformed KGB apparatchik.
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The most frequently cited email saw a DNC apparatchik suggesting that Sanders' irreligiousness be underscored in religious states.
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Mr Tokayev, 66, is a Soviet-era apparatchik who became foreign minister and prime minister after Kazakhstan became independent.
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As for Mr Trong, party chief since 2011, he is a colourless apparatchik in the twilight of his career.
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Conspicuously absent are Xi Jinping's turgid works, such as "The Governance of China", a must-read for any party apparatchik.
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Mr. Yuan, he added, was the ultimate "flexible Leninist apparatchik" who survived in a Communist bureaucracy by making enormous compromises.
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The mystery apparatchik on the end of the line was not sure if he had actually succeeded in hiding his number.
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Nursultan Nazarbayev, a 79-year-old former Communist Party apparatchik, resigned as Kazakh president in March after three decades in power.
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As the former steelworker and Communist apparatchik spoke in Astana a few dozen protesters gathered outside the Nur Otan office in Almaty.
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Apart from Rampling, the movie's best turn probably comes from Jeremy Irons as a General Korchnoi, who is an eerie Russian apparatchik.
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As you might expect from someone being victimized by a regressive state apparatchik, at times Hassan sounds worn down—but never defeated.
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When Democratic policies prevail despite all of that, they use apparatchik-stuffed courts to strike down legislation on the flimsiest of grounds.
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He had sat out those tragic years as an unthreatening apparatchik in charge of Communist Party affairs at the capital's electric-power bureau.
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His standing is far different from that of Khrushchev, Brezhnev or Gorbachev, who excelled in the gray apparatchik universe of the Soviet hierarchy.
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The president's early endorsement of the establishment apparatchik Luther Strange always seemed more like a forced concession than a demonstration of true feeling.
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By contrast, a team apparatchik can sit in an airless office and stare at the television screen and decipher those same pitching signs.
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These are all steps Trump has the authority to take on his own, and he's shown a basic willingness to behave like an apparatchik.
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On Monday, the Republican National Committee announced it had hired the pro-Trump apparatchik Kayleigh McEnany, who also flirted with birtherism, as a party spokesperson.
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With Kavanaugh, the tie-breaking vote on the Supreme Court will be a right-wing apparatchik chosen in part for his deference to executive power.
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A dull apparatchik whose ambition exactly matched his bloodthirst, Mr. Milosevic was reliant on the oppressive machinery of his police, secret service and the paramilitaries.
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Even the gargoyle apparatchik Comrade Panczel (a cross-dressed and brilliant Eszter Csakanyi), the epitome of institutionalized evil, is revealed to be a lonely soul.
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Their replacement is a humorless but handsome apparatchik, Gleb (Ramin Karimloo, a veteran of grand operas, looking embarrassed), who finds himself strangely drawn to Anya.
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Successive renovations had left the place without much of the original architectural detail, but as a result it was airy and open: less apparatchik, more IKEA .
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She's an odd character: she started as some sort of PR apparatchik, but her parents own Panda Energy International, a big clean energy company in Texas.
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But constitutionally barred from seeking a second six-year term, he backed Mr. Jeenbekov, 58, an experienced apparatchik who had served as prime minister until August.
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The contrasting views of the boffin from Beijing and the local apparatchik help explain how disruptive entrepreneurs turned Shenzhen into one of the world's most innovative cities.
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The two most likely contenders to succeed him are Jon Lansman, the founder of Momentum, and Jennie Formby, an apparatchik from the Unite union, Labour's biggest donor.
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Alarmed, the country's president at the time, Islam Karimov, a former Soviet apparatchik, cracked down, introducing government-sanctioned mosques that were tightly controlled and banning all others.
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It seems like a strange moment — when the universe seems to be correcting for the countless errors of the patriarchy — to be rewarding apparatchik loyalty over feminist ambition.
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Sanders, in turn, has stepped up his own fire, painting Clinton as a Wall Street apparatchik, too mortgaged to the bankers and corporate interests to bring about real change.
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To a deeply depressing extent, the decision to leave or stay turns on two overlapping questions: If I quit, am I likely to be replaced by a Trump apparatchik?
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Most notably, the Working Families Party — the apparatchik of New York's left wing — has endorsed the Nixon over the incumbent, citing Cuomo's not-so-progressive record as the cause.
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Last week, Kazakhstan's central bank said the portrait of the former steelworker and Communist apparatchik would appear on a bank note for the first time, which enters circulation on Dec.
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A former Communist apparatchik and businessman, Atambayev took part in revolts in 2005 and 2010 that deposed two consecutive presidents, earning Kyrgyzstan a reputation as Central Asia's most politically volatile nation.
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When the apparatchik calls for "a strong number about the leader of the world proletariat," it sounds like a bad joke (or a movie executive note), but it chills the room.
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The Obama administration has well known grievances with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, but Obama never publicly suggested Benjamin Netanyahu replace him with a left-wing apparatchik from outside the Likud Party. 3.
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Shukhrat Ganiev, the director of the Humanitarian Legal Center in the city of Bukhara, recalled that he thought Mr. Karimov's successor Mr. Mirziyoyev, a former Soviet apparatchik, would be just another Karimov.
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The president's tweets and daily rants do not help the poor apparatchik in some major U.S. combatant command staff or far-flung embassy, who really wants to support the American national interest.
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In 1936, it was lived in by the Nazi apparatchik and German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, while during the war it was the base for the French leader in exile, Charles de Gaulle.
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A former steelworker-turned-Communist apparatchik, Nazarbayev ruled the oil-rich Central Asian nation from 1989 until his resignation in March, when he installed a loyal successor while retaining sweeping powers for himself.
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Centrally involved in the response to the disaster, Legasov was mostly a good apparatchik, hewing to the party line that operator error and not flaws in Soviet reactor design led to the explosion.
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You don't have to dive deep into Barr's history to see that he is an apparatchik, less committed to the rule of law than he is to his political party and its leadership.
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He at once comes across as a pro-business outsider favoring lower taxes and less regulation, while also pushing the notion he's a pro-consumer apparatchik looking out for a free and fair press.
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Although it is still early days for Mr Díaz-Canel, a party apparatchik, diplomats and foreign businessmen report that a number of negotiations are under way — from infrastructure and agriculture to tourism and energy.
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The use of an actor (Igor Vernik, speaking credible French and English as well as Russian) playing the auctioneer, Avedon and an apparatchik who reports Nureyev's defection, provides a dramatic fillip and smooth linkages.
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But the 78-year-old former Communist apparatchik retains the title of Yelbasy, the national leader, and enjoys sweeping powers as the chair of the security council and head of the ruling Nur Otan party.
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But the 78-year-old former Communist apparatchik retains the title of Yelbasy, the national leader, and enjoys sweeping powers as the chair of the security council and head of the ruling Nur Otan party.
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At first you'll try to control your Will to Power like a benevolent dictator—maybe just collect a few Kim Jong-il cum MC Hammer-style Louis Vuitton shades to go with your monochromatic apparatchik jumpsuits.
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He was a right-wing apparatchik for most of his adult life, but started having doubts a decade ago about the party's inability to provide solutions to the economic needs of the working and middle classes.
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"Bernie is a known quantity in any socialist paradise," establishment-class Republican consultant Rick Wilson told Kruse, "the party apparatchik with the dacha…" Kruse helpfully notes that everyone who knows Sanders thinks the comparison is absurd.
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A former Soviet apparatchik, Mr. Mirziyoyev served for 13 years as prime minister to the mercurial and heavy-handed Mr. Karimov, who in his final years had taken to imprisoning even members of his own family.
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She launches into a lengthy speech twisting Twain into the image of "a revolutionist" and "anti-imperialist," continuing after the bell sounds and her embarrassed students file out, her fear transforming her into an apparatchik drone.
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Even if reports that a furious Mr Kim had some of his negotiating team executed after the shambles in Vietnam are exaggerated, it would be a brave apparatchik who agreed to anything much on Mr Kim's behalf.
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By publishing it, he went against a well-established taboo on criticizing Karimov, who ran the nation of 32 million with an iron fist from 1989, first as a Communist apparatchik and then as an elected leader.
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The biggest challenge may still lie ahead for the 59-year-old former communist apparatchik - establishing the same level of authority as his all-powerful predecessor, Islam Karimov, in whose shadow Mirziyoyev spent more than a decade.
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Mr Jeyenbekov, a dour 58-year-old with all the panache of a Soviet apparatchik, beat his more dynamic rival, Omurbek Babanov, a 47-year-old businessman (and also a former prime minister) with 55% of the vote.
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Known as "Papa" to many Kazakhs, the 78-year-old former steel worker and Communist party apparatchik has ruled the vast oil and gas-rich Central Asian nation since 1989, when it was still part of the Soviet Union.
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The Russians were America's feted allies, so Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's stolid deputy — an apparatchik so bland that Lenin once called him a "filing clerk" — was the man of the hour, lionized like a movie star and hounded for autographs.
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Rául Castro, who handpicked this loyal apparatchik as his successor, remains at the helm of the Communist Party and the armed forces; his son runs the intelligence services; his ex-son-in-law runs the military's vast business interests.
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Mr Trump never showed much trust in Mr Priebus, a conventional conservative and party apparatchik who as chairman of the Republican National Committee during the 2016 campaign could not conceal his dismay at the New York tycoon's takeover of his party.
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Karimov, a former Soviet apparatchik who had run the resource-rich nation with an iron fist for 27 years until his death in 2016, rejected Western-style political and economic reforms, promoting the idea of a unique "Uzbek model" of development.
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The city called it "emergency" repair, but residents of other buildings grouse that it got special treatment because important functionaries still live in some of its 700 apartments, including a senior Kremlin apparatchik who reportedly bought almost an entire floor.
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President Saparmurat Niyazov, an ex-Soviet apparatchik, set about creating a national identity for his country, "inextricably weaving it around his own personality and presenting himself as the embodiment of those national ideals," according to The Foreign Policy Centre report.
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Whatever happens, the British Prime Minister will likely take stronger actions against the Russians then President Trump, who continues to treat Vladimir Putin as a trusted interlocutor rather than the dyed-in-the-wool KGB apparatchik he always has been.
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"Allowing him to be swept aside in favor of a craven Trump apparatchik will further coarsen our politics and threaten the rule of law," said Rick Wilson, a GOP campaign strategist and media consultant who frequently criticizes the president, in the statement.
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And Mr. Dung, a charismatic prime minister who favors closer ties with the United States, is battling to succeed Nguyen Phu Trong, a conservative apparatchik looking to stay on in the party's top job of general secretary, according to several analysts, diplomats and business leaders.
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SANTA CLARA/HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) - The man likely to become Cuba's next president is from a younger generation of leaders and has advocated modernizing the island but he is also a longtime Communist Party apparatchik who is not expected to push for sweeping political change.
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Trump's defenders argued that Steele was not a whistle-blower but a villain—a dishonest Clinton apparatchik who had collaborated with American intelligence and law-enforcement officials to fabricate false charges against Trump and his associates, in a dastardly attempt to nullify the 2016 election.
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In this situation, which is ours, the meritocrats have no mandate and no sense of why the public hates them — believing, with Sikorski and the Macron apparatchik, that their governance was wise and just and there's nothing wrong with meritocracy that can't be fixed with more of it.
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The chairman was crowing about the great success of his Cleveland confab — the rousing addresses delivered by Ted Cruz, the actor Scott Baio and Melania Trump, among others; the party unity on display; and even the special socks (blue with red squigglies) that the G.O.P. lifer-apparatchik donned for the occasion.
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This is wildly ahistorical, but for me and millions of other readers it both passes the Superman test and is a big part of what makes the books so enjoyable, and the main character so easy to like (as the real-life Cromwell, apparatchik and bureaucrat and religious ideologue, definitely wasn't).
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The same greed-driven calculus has seeped into every cranny of a Trump administration that prefers to mine illicit connections for personal profit rather than do what's best for the U.S. The entire Giuliani-Ukraine affair is only the latest example of a White House apparatchik who's willing to sell out his country's interests for an electoral advantage necessary to sustain the grift.
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Giuliani was the third-ranking Department of Justice official under Reagan and then a US attorney; Flynn was a high-ranking general who led a major intelligence agency in the Defense Department; Gingrich has no specific foreign affairs specialty, but high-profile political veterans are often picked for State regardless; Eisenberg is exactly the kind of party apparatchik who always gets the Commerce job.
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Win or lose, they've been liberated from that, and not just in the sense of participating in a World Series, but participating in one of the World Series, a seven-game nail-biter that's going to be remembered—unlike, say, the drought-breaking Chicago White Sox championship of 2005, which has vanished from memory as thoroughly as if some Soviet apparatchik had deemed they be airbrushed out of the history books.
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There is a lot to take in, even in the first three episodes: a crash course on the Iran hostage crisis that helped tank Jimmy Carter's presidency; the effect of America's failures in Vietnam on its foreign policy in the 1980s; the way natural disaster brought about a political reckoning in Nicaragua; the apparatchik Oliver North using the specter of communism to persuade American blue bloods to donate to the cause of buying hand grenades for insurgents who wanted to overthrow Nicaragua's socialist government (one donor requested naming rights for a missile).
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He played the false friend and Party apparatchik, O'Brien. For which he won Best Featured Actor, Broadway World, Los Angeles Awards.
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"Riding the TAFF Rails," Apparatchik 53, 1996. He also received the 2009 Rotsler Award in recognition of his contributions to fan art.
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Owen Jones in his Guardian column defended Milne as "a deeply insightful and thoroughly decent man who has been wronged by his media portrayal as a soulless Stalinist apparatchik".
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He fought in battle around Irkutsk against Alexander Kolchak's White Army. After the war, he served as an apparatchik in Krasnoyarsk and Chita until 1924. Not much is known of Yi's life after 1924.
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Apparatchik (APPAЯATCHIK), nicknamed Apak, was a science fiction fanzine by Andrew Hooper, Carl Juarez, and Victor Gonzalez. It was headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The first issue appeared in March 1994. Initially it was published weekly and became bi-weekly with #11.
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In 1969, student Chen Zhen () is sent to the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia to teach shepherds. Instead, he learns about the shepherds and the bond they share with the wolves, a bond that is threatened by a government apparatchik.
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Benford was a guest of honour at Aussiecon Three, the 1999 Worldcon. He remains a regular contributor to science fiction fanzines, for example Apparatchik (defunct as of 1997). In 2016 Benford was the recipient of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Forry Award Lifetime Achievement Award in the Field of Science Fiction.
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He also reported on the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934. Interviews included: Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Huey Long, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Olga Knipper- Chekhova. He wrote the Daily Worker's obituary cum condemnation of Walter Krivitsky in 1941. John Fleming described him as follows: > Sender Garlin was a long-time literary apparatchik of the American Communist > Party.
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Augusts Voss (; 30 October 1919 in Omsk Governorate – 10 February 1994 in Moscow) was a Soviet politician and party functionary of Latvian and German origin. Before World War II he worked as a school teacher. In 1940 he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a politruk. From 1945 he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia.
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His co-workers find the new address of his wife and send him there. Filimonov is confronted by the fact that his wife is now married to a Soviet apparatchik who treats her badly. In the final scene, Filimonov breaks the fourth wall and declares to the audience that there is still a lot of work to be done.
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In 1920–1930, as a Bolshevik party apparatchik he worked in Georgia, where he became acquainted with Lavrentiy Beria, then head of the Georgian Communist Party . After Beria became head of NKVD in November 1938, Milshtein in December that year was appointed chief of the Investigative unit of NKVD. He was arrested in July 1953, shortly after the arrest of Beria. He was tried and executed in January 1955.
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This fact was shown by the fierceness of the resistance to Najibullah's appointment within the Parcham faction. This split persisted, forcing Najibullah to straddle his politics between whatever Parchami support he could maintain and alliances he could win from the Khalqis. Najibullah's reputation was that of a secret police apparatchik with especially effective skills in disengaging Ghilzai and eastern Pashtuns from the resistance. Najibullah was himself a Ghilzai from the large Ahmedzai tribe.
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He was also a delegate of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR (since 1965), delegate of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union (since 1974), and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (since 1976). Griškevičius was described as a Brezhnevite, conservative and "mediocre apparatchik", who opposed perestroika and especially glasnost. He supported suppression of Lithuanian history and cultural heritage, replacing them with Soviet propaganda.
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After years of stagnation, the "new thinking"Anatoli Cherniaev, 'Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy: The Concept' in Skinner, Kiron (ed.) Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, (Hoover Institution Press: 2008), pp. 111–140 [online] [accessed 22–23 February 2012], p. 131. of younger Communist apparatchik began to emerge. Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in March 1985.
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Ignatiev, the son of a peasant family of Ukrainian ethnicity, an engineer, joined the Communist Party in 1926. For most of his career, he was a discreet regional apparatchik, serving as Party Secretary in Buryat ASSR, Bashkir ASSR, Byelorussian SSR and finally Uzbek SSR. He was called to Moscow in 1950. Joseph Stalin wanted Ignatiev to counter the influence of Lavrenti Beria and Viktor Abakumov, the two leading officials of the secret police at the time.
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In 1959 Savchenko was transferred to Moldova and appointed chief of the State Committee of Security of Moldavian SSR. He assumed control over Moldovan KGB at the time when its rights were limited and duties extended. The border guard troops, reporting to KGB general Iosif Mordovets, once subordinated to the Moldovan KGB, now reported directly to Moscow. Savchenko, a Party apparatchik tasked with increasing the Party influence in the KGB, established himself as a capable executive with good interpersonal communication skills.
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Rahmon was born as Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov () to Sharif Rahmonov and Mayram Sharifova, a peasant family in Danghara, Kulob Oblast (present-day Khatlon province). From 1971 to 1974 he served in the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet, during which he was stationed in the Primorsky Krai. After completing the military service, Rahmon returned to his native village where he worked for some time as an electrician. As rising apparatchik in Tajikistan, he became a chairman of the collective state farm of his native Danghara.
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They have been translated into many other languages. Among others, they are very popular in Israel, where Polish Jewish immigrants since the 1920s and 1930s took care to have many of them translated into Hebrew and introduced them to their own children. Makuszyński was temporarily blacklisted right after World War II by his chief rival at the Polish Academy of Literature and later, communist apparatchik Wincenty Rzymowski, a plagiarist. Makuszyński died in 1953 in Zakopane, where he lived from 1945.
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Ninčić died in exile in Switzerland in 1949. He had written serious disquisitions on European, Serbian and Yugoslav politics. In 2006 a court in Serbia rehabilitated Momčilo Ninčić to the same stature he held before the communist party and people of Yugoslavia won power and freedom in anti-fascist struggle. Against her parents' wishes, his daughter Olga married a Bosnian Muslim student activist, later Communist Yugoslav apparatchik, Avdo Humo, just before World War II and stayed in occupied Sarajevo when her parents fled with the royal government to Britain in 1941.
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Vladimir Ivanoff, a saxophonist with the Moscow circus, lives in a crowded apartment with his extended family. He stands in lines for hours to buy toilet paper and shoes. When Boris, the apparatchik assigned to the circus, criticizes Vladimir for being late to rehearsal and suggests Vladimir may miss the approaching trip to New York City, Vladimir gives Boris a pair of shoes from the queue that made Vladimir late. While Ivanoff is riding in his friend Anatoly's Lada, Anatoly stops to buy fuel for his car from a mobile black market gasoline dealer.
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The British-American journalist and author Christopher Hitchens, under subpoena, submitted an affidavit to the trial managers of the Republican Party during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, in which Hitchens swore under oath that then-friend Blumenthal had described Monica Lewinsky as a stalker. Hitchens' allegations directly contradicted Blumenthal's own sworn deposition during Clinton's impeachment trial that he never said any such thing, which resulted in a hostile exchange of words between the two men. Following the publication of The Clinton Wars, in which Blumenthal recounted the disagreement, Hitchens wrote several articles in which he once more accused Blumenthal of lying."Thinking Like an Apparatchik".
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Wolf Totem (, French: Le dernier loup, "The Last Wolf") is a 2015 drama film based on the 2004 Chinese semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Jiang Rong. Directed by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, the Chinese- French co-production features a Chinese student who is sent to Inner Mongolia to teach shepherds and instead learns about the wolf population, which is under threat by a government apparatchik. The Beijing Forbidden City Film Corporation initially sought to hire a Chinese director, but filming humans with real wolves was considered too difficult. New Zealand director Peter Jackson was approached, but production did not take place.
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As a prose writer, Agolli first made a name for himself with the novel Commissar Memo (, Tirana 1970), translated in English as The bronze bust, Tirana 1975 originally conceived as a short story. Agolli's second novel, The man with the cannon (, Tirana 1975) translated into English in 1983, takes up the partisan theme from a different angle and with a somewhat more subtle approach. After these two novels of partisan heroism, Agolli produced also some interesting work, his satirical Splendour and fall of comrade Zylo (, Tirana 1973), which has proved to be his claim to fame. Comrade Zylo is the epitome of the well-meaning but incompetent apparatchik, a director of an obscure government cultural affairs department.
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He soon enters a strained but beneficial relationship with a German police officer called Peter Schmidt, who describes his father's escapades as one of Heinrich Himmler's art collectors, particularly of revolutionary avant garde Russian art, presently persecuted by the Soviet regime. Arkady finds himself a rival in Max Albov, Irina's colleague at Radio Liberty, whom he had previously encountered in Moscow and starts to suspect of involvement with Rosen. Irina repents of her dislike for Arkady, after learning that he had not been living as the spoiled apparatchik he had been portrayed, and awkwardly all three of them head for Berlin. At an art exhibition, the avant garde piece by Malevich called "Red Square" is proudly shown to audiences.
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In 1976 he even moved (briefly) into Opera, taking a supporting part in a production of Die Fledermaus at the Rostock People's Theatre ( Volkstheater Rostock). The 1960s and 70s found Eberhard Cohrs in the mainstream of East Germany's entertainment and media worlds. His formula, based on "earthy Saxon humour", covered themes such as the differences between sophisticated Berlin and provincial Saxony, between "high politics" and peoples' daily difficulties, and gave public voice to the plight of the so-called "little man". Although his performances were necessarily apolitical, his brand of humour and his contrived Saxon punning, were not appreciated by every Party Apparatchik, and in the early 1970s he was banned from writing his own material.
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This was a bit of a controversy, as it was unclear at the time that Carlos César would break his own promise not run again. Vasco Cordeiro was eventually chosen as his party's successor, inline with the politics established in César's leadership. The two other candidates for the position, José Contente and Sérgio Ávila, were possible successors, but easily abandoned by the PS: Contente was a recognized apparatchik of the party and about the same age as César, while Ávila was point-man in the Vice-Presidency (responsible for regional finances) and a Terceirense, which hurt his chances of succeeding on the vote-rich island of São Miguel, where the PSD leader and mayor of Ponta Delgada (Berta Cabral) could easily obtain an advantage.
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Roman Werfel Roman Werfel (1906 in Lwów - 2003 in Great Britain), was a communist apparatchik in communist Poland, active during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland. He was an editor-in-chief of "Nowe Drogi", the leading organ of the Central Committee of the communist United Workers' Party (1952-1959), and from 1948 director of party publishing house Książka i Wiedza. Roman Werfel took part in preparing the acts of indictment in practically all major political trials (Rzepecki, Mierzwa & Niepokolczycki, Puzak, Tatar, bishop Kaczmarek) and had this to say about the much-hated Communist secret police, the UB or Bezpieka: "There's one principle you have to stick to, in beating: Johnny has to be beaten by Johnny, and not by Moshe." (Torańska, p. 109).
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Kubitschek is known to adapt traditionally leftist strategies and terminology. In 2007, he initiated the Konservativ-Subversive Aktion with only a few companions, its name being reminiscent of the 1960s West German far-left group Subversive Aktion. Their tactics were aimed to spread its positions by offensive and spectacular actions. Well-publicised, provocant actions of KSA have been the disruption of a Berlin convention of a socialist students' association in May 2008; of a speech by Egon Krenz, a former GDR apparatchik, in June 2008; of a reading by Nobel Prize-winning writer Günter Grass in August 2008; of a discussion forum with Green politician Daniel 'Red Danny' Cohn-Bendit and moderate conservative Armin Laschet in November 2009; and a demonstration in black shirts against chancellor Merkel's participation in a memorial service for the end of World War I in France.
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He also did two voices in the GameCube video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. He is the voice of The Professor and White Monkey in the Ape Escape series. Recently, his voice was featured in the video game Dead Rising as Russell Barnaby, in the Assassin's Creed series as Dr. Warren Vidic, and on Adventures in Odyssey as Leonard Meltsner and Detective Don Polehaus. In the 2007 live audio production of the Angie Award-winning screenplay Albatross (original screenplay written by Lance Rucker and Timothy Perrin) at the International Mystery Writers Festival, he played seven characters requiring four different accents: KGB agent Stefan Linnik, East German Communist Party apparatchik Kurt Mueller; a West Berlin gasthaus owner; an armed forces radio announcer; the Senate minority whip; a Secret Service guard; and Gerhard Derstman, the East German Cultural Attache/Stasi member.
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According to information from WikiLeaks, Patten was in Moscow in April 2004 and had concluded EU–Russia ministerial consultations in Brussels. He considered that the EU had become overly dependent on Russian energy supplies, and should become more engaged with the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia in order to diversify supplies. According to information from the US Embassy in Brussels (published by WikiLeaks in November 2010): Patten said in April 2004 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has done a good job for Russia mainly due to high world energy prices, but he had serious doubts about the man's character. Cautioning that "I'm not saying that genes are determinant," Patten then reviewed the Putin family history – grandfather part of Lenin's special protection team; father a communist party apparatchik, and Putin himself decided at a young age to pursue a career in the KGB.
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Others include: the stormy negotiations over a new Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia in which Maragall and the PSC hovered between a nationalist stance and caving in to central government pressure; the collapse of an entire city block in Barcelona's Carmel district following poorly planned and executed tunnelling work; and a schemesupported by Maragall's governmentto build a tunnel for the AVE high- speed train under the shaky foundations of Barcelona's 19th-century city centre. In October 2005 Maragall met with objections regarding his plans for reshuffling the cabinet without consulting either his coalition partners or his party. Ernest Maragall, the President's brother, was tipped for a ministerial post in the reshuffle. Ernest, who was seen by critics as an apparatchik and held the post of Executive Secretary, whipped up a storm of protest in June 2005 when he opposed plans to make Catalonia's future anti- fraud department independent of the government.
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" For example, "Mousavian knew not a thing" about the uranium-enrichment facility at Fordow until President Obama's press conference about it. Citing Mousavian's expression of trust in "the supreme leader’s fatwa banning the use or production of nuclear weapons," Gerecht observes wryly that "Mousavian is putting his trust in the man who demolished his world, incarcerated him, and forced him and his family into exile. It would be easy to say that Mousavian is just lying—and he is. But what is more intriguing is how hard it is for him to reflect critically on the revolution. In his eyes still, Iran’s faults are mostly American in origin—or tactical mistakes made by his archenemy, Ahmadinejad. Like battered Communists of old who just couldn’t stop loving the Soviet Union, Mousavian remains a party apparatchik who still loves the cause....There isn’t a word, even from the safety of Princeton, about the dark side of Khamenei and his Revolutionary Guards’ having the bomb.
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An up- and-coming Chinese Communist apparatchik named Li (who is, in fact, a suave Fu Manchu type philosopher steeped in ancient Chinese learning and having only a thin veneer of Communism or Marxism) devises a plan with the aid of a prominent nuclear scientist and a People's Liberation Army general to produce a nuclear weapon, which they will plant outside US bases of strategic importance and detonate so that it appears that the Soviet Union has committed to the first strike of a nuclear war. The United States and the Soviet Union both deploy their nuclear arsenals, wiping each other out and destroying the Pentagon and killing the US President. Meanwhile, the only submarine left in the US fleet, which has been on an expedition conducting an experiment on social isolation under the polar icecap, comes back to port after receiving news of the nuclear holocaust. The commander drops the survivors off at a deserted Pacific island that will be passed over by the fallout.
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Martin Wein noted that although Slánský was not guilty of the charges he was forced to admit, he was guilty of mass murder as a Communist apparatchik. In Wein's opinion, because all of the defendants (except Simone) occupied high positions in the Czechoslovak Communist regime, they had command responsibility for crimes committed by it. Wein further noted that the three reprieved defendants all came from an upper- class background, while all of the middle-class and working-class defendants were executed. He hypothesizes that this was because if an upper-class person was a traitor to the Communist party, he was not a traitor to his class. According to Stephen Norwood, the Slánský trial was the "clearest illustration yet of state-sponsored antisemitism in the Soviet bloc" and "a secularized version of the Spanish Inquisition’s racialized antisemitism", because it insisted on that Jewish origin was an indelible defect which would pass to all descendents (similar to the guilt of Jewish deicide).
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