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- Birth nameGeorgi Arkadyevich Arbatov
- Georgi Arbatov was born on March 23, 1923 in Kherson, Ukraine. He died on October 1, 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
- Counselor of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964-1967), and Senior Foreign Policy Advisor of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1968-1989). Advisor to Nikita Khrushchev, Aleksey Kosygin, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin.
- His father was persecuted during the Stalinist purges, was arrested, and survived.
- He served in the Soviet Union Army during World War II.
- He later graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Moscow, Russia.
- He was a journalist and party adviser before setting up the Institute for U.S.A. and Canada Studies in 1967. He was also a member of the Community Party Central Committee.
- After the Soviet Union collapsed: While the Soviet Union lost, the United States was also dealt with a blow because it no longer had a single country that was a primary foe and rallying appoint. The United States had been deprived of "The Enemy."
- On the economic measures adopted in the 1990s in Russia: they had concentrated wealth in the hands of the oligarchs and undermined the middle class.
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