Dusko doder biography for kids

As Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post in the early s, Dusko Doder had several advantages stemming from his upbringing in Yugoslavia: fluent idiomatic Russian and an intuitive understanding of the signs of change within a totalitarian system.

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He sensed something was amiss on a February night in , when state radio canceled a jazz program and broadcast somber classical music. He noticed also that the lights at the Defense Ministry and the Soviet secret police, the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark.

With deadline pressing, Post colleagues in Washington scrambled to get a response or more details from U.S. officials. The State Department and others dismissed Mr. Doder’s reporting as overblown.

Dusko doder biography for kids

One U.S. Embassy diplomat in Moscow replied to State that Mr. Doder was probably “on pot,” according to Post accounts.

Mr. Doder’s story ran on Page 28 on Feb. 10, , with added caveats from U.S. authorities. That same day, the Kremlin announced