CIA-RDP09-00997R000100400002-3.pdf

7 _ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDP09-00997R000100400002-3 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDPO9-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY FBIS ANALYSIS GROUP 3 FEBRUARY 1984 FB M 84-10010 _SOVIET TREATMENT OF PRESIDENT REAGAN SINCE NOVEMBER 1980 The treatment accorded an American president in Soviet authoritative statements and media commentary is a sensitive barometer of Soviet expectations for relations with Washington. Historically, Soviet efforts to promote an improved climate of relations with th…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDP09-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Within this broad chronological framework, the attached Soviet leadership statements and media commentaries reveal the varied treatment accorded to President Reagan and his Administration by three different elements in the Soviet Union at three different levels of authority--the leadership itself, political commentators with close ties to the leadership, and the routine — media commentators. The pattern of behavior of each of these groups is distinctive: @ While obviousl…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDP0O9-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY _ General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Kremlin dinner speech (PRAVDA, 18 Nov 80) Much in the development of the.international situation will, of course, depend on the position of the United States. A new President has now been elected there. I shall not dwell on what was said ‘by him and his supporters and opponents in the heat of the election struggle. I can only state with full responsibility that any constructive steps by the U.S. Administration in the field of Seviet-…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDP09-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY The present state of relations between us and the sharpness of international problems demanding solution dictate the need for dialogue at all levels and, what is more, an active dialogue. We are ready for dialogue. Experience shows that the decisive link here is meetings at the highest level. - Brezhnev, speech in Kiev (PRAVDA, 10 May 81) There are quite a few sober-minded people among those who today shape the policy of capitalist countries. They understand that: the em…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDPO9-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Without putting forward any positive initiatives the Reagan Administration has taken a standpoint of unconcealed anti-Sovietism. At the same time it is grossly interfering in the affairs of other states and is high-handedly dictating its demands to them. Washington has launched a broad offensive against the national-liberation movements in Africa, Asia and particularly in Latin America, is giving every sort of support to antipopular regimes, and is putting arms, equipmen…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDPO9-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY statements by high-ranking statesmen of that country and, which is even more important, in their practical deeds, All of it is actually an opposite to detente, blunt disregard for the striving of all peoples for lasting peace. And it is, certainly, profoundly deplorable that the leaders of one of the world's biggest powers have deemed it possible to build their policy on such a basis. . . « President Reagan has recently expressed the readiness of the United States to dis…

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/07/16 : CIA-RDP09-00997R000100400002-3 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Yes, Washington makes no little effort to try to bring abut a turnaround in international politics from detente to confrontation between blocs. Why is it done? It is not too difficult to answer this question. What it amounts to is above all an attempt at crowding socialism and impairing the positions of the USSR and other socialist countries on the European. and world scene. Certain figures of the imperialist camp are day and night beset by nightmares because socialism i…

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