But in September 1990, the transfer was finally authorized, the company was constituted and additional Soviet and republican research institutes and academies expressed interest in participating.
A number of sources report that she was renamed by the Soviets as Respublikanets (Republican) or Barrikada (Barricade), but this is not confirmed by the post-Cold War sources used by McLaughlin.
Against Soviet agents and Irish republican terrorists, the intelligence services thought they achieved this pretty well.
Davenport plays a Soviet official advising the republicans.
MOSCOW — Soviet leaders used to prefer Republicans to Democrats, in the belief that Republicans were tough but more sincere and, once they made a promise, were more likely to deliver on it.
Vice President Al Gore's press secretary, Chris Lehane, compared Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, a Republican, to "a Soviet commissar;" and Mr. Gore's campaign chairman, William M. Daley, declared that voting irregularities in Florida could amount to "an injustice unparalleled in our history".
The country is about to be offered the same two products: one from Soviet Production Facility A (the Republicans), and the other from Soviet Production Facility B (the Democrats).
By the end of the war, Soviet-backed elements on the Republican side were expending as much effort on suppressing their anti-fascist allies as they were on confronting Franco's fascists.
Re "Among City's Soviet Immigrants, an Affinity for Republicans" (news article, May 9): As a Soviet immigrant myself, in New York since 1979, I know this affinity from the inside and know that it is almost universal among us regardless of cultural sophistication.
Soviet air support for the Republicans was growing, particularly through the supply of Polikarpov aircraft.
