[normy]

But somehow I had the feeling that if any place in the world was bugged by the KGB, it had to be The New York Times office in the press center in Moscow.

A better bet would be that the editor would spill his guts nightly over vodka and flattery.

[CondorFlight]

Some of the teddy bears which were sold as mementos of the Moscow Olympics were made by prisoners in the Gulag.

It has been said that they also used some prisoner labor on the construction of the Olympic venues when they were running short of time.

For that alone, the communist Olympics should have been disqualified as Olympic games.