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Article: Men on the moon: a view from Moscow: in July 1969, the United States was poised to make history in space. But the Soviet Union had one last Cold War trick up its sleeve.(Times Past)
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- New York Times Upfront
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- April 26, 2004
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I arrived in Moscow as a correspondent for The New York Times in February 1969, and was named bureau chief in July. This was Cold War Moscow, where the KGB kept tabs on all Western correspondents, and news--except for that provided by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, and the various Communist Party-controlled newspapers and journals--was hard to come by.
So, needless to say, I was curious to see how the Soviets would report what was sure to be one of humankind's greatest achievements: the landing of men on the moon planned for later that month by the United States, the Soviet Union's superpower nemesis.
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