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death themselves". In August 1983, he particularly warned the United States of not having "illusions" that US-Soviet relations had "thawed and improved", saying any signs of alleviated tension were not sincere. However, despite his close relations with the Soviet Union press, in March 1987, he called for more independent and
Western media commentary and said that the "days when every article represented the government position" belonged to the past. Bovin was also a critic of the Iranian leaders, saying "one can obviously doubt that the theocratic concept of the state will help Iran become a modern flourishing country" and that
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replaced due to his age. His popularity in Israel was immense and he was generally viewed in a positive light by the
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to the USSR in terms of foreign policy: all Soviet ambassadors became
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article which made it the harshest personal criticism ever to appear in the Soviet Union targeted at
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