"All this is forcing the USSR to fortify the nation's defences. The Soviet people want no arms build-up. What they want is arms reduction on both sides. But we are compelled to see to our country's essential security and also to that of our friends and allies. That is exactly what is being done. And we want everybody to remember that no adventure-seekers will ever succeed in catching us unawares, that no potential aggressor has the slightest chance of escaping a devastating retaliatory strike."
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Heads of stateGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionAtheists from RussiaPeople of the Cold WarCommunist Party of the Soviet Union members
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Quoted in "Problems of Common Security" - Page 60 - by V. S. Shaposhnikov - 1984
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Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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