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was attempting to combine state control of industry with free speech and the abolition of censorship, Yepishev was the first high-ranking official to hint publicly, in May 1968, that the USSR might use military force to suppress the experiment. On 15–18 August, he accompanied the
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resumed control of the MGB, Yepishev was returned to his post in Odessa, where he remained until August 1955. On 26 March 1954, he was accepted as a member of the
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Mackintosh, Malcolm (September–October 1973). "The Soviet Military: Influence on Foreign Policy".
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ambassador in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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