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Shelepin

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[shuh-lep-in, shi-lye-pyin] / ʃəˈlɛp ɪn, ʃɪˈlyɛ pyɪn /

noun

  1. Alexandr Nikolayevich 1918–1994, Soviet government official.


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That soured Nikita on Shelepin, who then began plotting against his former mentor.

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By training and temperament, Mazurov, Shelepin and the others appear no more inventive or flexible than Brezhnev.

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He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance.

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Numerous others�including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov�have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced for political sins.

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"Shelepin said that you got your doctor-of-science degree without defending it."

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