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.
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."