Shelepin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outcry actually began last February when news leaked out that Shelepin would head a Soviet delegation invited by Britain's Trades Union Congress.
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But Shelepin, an extreme hardliner, is so wily that he cannot be discounted as a contender even if he is less powerful than before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among possible successors: Dmitry Poliansky, 44, a fast-rising Khrushchev prot�g� who toured the U.S. in 1960; Aleksandr Shelepin, 43, who came up through the Young Communist League and efficiently destalinized the secret police.
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According to one scenario, Shelepin was caught organizing a faction that would have seized power when the ailing Brezhnev retired or died.
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