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Arkady N. Shevchenko:Out of the Coldest Cold

C/3c Dustin K. Vicent29 Oct 08

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Overview

• Background• Defection• Implications• Leadership• Quotes

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Background

• Early Life• Born in Gorlovka, eastern Ukrainian SSR on 11 Oct 1930• Evacuate to Siberia, ‘41

• Education• Admitted to Moscow State Institute of International

Relations• Studies Soviet Law and Theory• Trains to become a foreign service diplomat

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Background, con’t

• Career• Sent to NYC on three month assignment, ‘58

• First taste of Western culture and freedom• Permanent posting to UN Security Council, ‘63• Promoted to Under Secretary General of the UN, ‘73

• Leads to allegiance conflicts

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Defection

• Problems• Soviet compliance for political gain• Communist centralization was depriving freedom

• Resignation• Political Asylum, ‘75• Espionage

• Pressure from CIA• KGB Surveillance

• Defected, ‘78

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Implications

• Loss of Soviet Nomenklatura• Wife’s death• Sentenced to Capital Punishment• Provided Insight into Soviet Russia• Inspiration

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Leadership

• Initiative• Courage• Discernment

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Quotes

• “One is better off with knowledge, for it is a great weapon in the arsenals of both offense and defense.”

• “The more I reflected on the idea, the more I was able to find positive aspects in it…”

• “The leaders of my country are as afraid of your 200 million private firearms as they are of your ICBMs. Never give up your guns!”

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Summary

• Background• Defection• Implications• Leadership• Quotes

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QUESTIONS??

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Sources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Shevchenko18 Sep 2008. Accessed 25 Oct 2008.

• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DE7DD1739F934A25751C0A963948260.

Gelb, Leslie H. 17 Feb 1985. Accessed 19 Sep 2008.

• Shevchenko, Arkady N. Breaking With Moscow. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1 Mar 1985.

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