Word: byelorussia
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...pointed out that America had exported over five million tons of grain last year, which was news to them all. None of them had heard of UNRRA aid in the Ukraine and Byelorussia. The old man countered the reference to UNRRA aid with: "Why are you also so kind to the Germans?" I replied: "The Russians are being kind to the Germans in Germany too." The old man answered: "That is true. We have heard it from our sons in the occupation Army. But why are you against our getting even ten billion in reparations? We need it because...
...Military Governor General Mark Clark; Britain's Sir William Strang and Sir Samuel Hood (who, as No. i civilian official in the British zone, is Murphy's opposite number); France's sleek, conciliatory Maurice Couve de Murville; Russia's deadpan, English-speaking Fedor Gusev, and Byelorussia's Kuzma Kiselev...
...quarters had come out of U.S. pockets. More than half of this money had been spent (where it was needed most) in nations firmly within the Russian orbit. Yugoslavia received $429 million worth of food, fuel, commodities, industrial supplies and other necessary aid, Czechoslovakia $270 million, Poland $474 million, Byelorussia and the Ukraine $250 million, and Albania $28 million...
...recently reached Berlin from various parts of the U.S.S.R. unanimously agree that the average German in the Soviet zone is better fed, better dressed, and better housed than the average Russian in Moscow, Sverdlovsk or Leningrad. He is incomparably better off than the average citizen of devastated Ukraine and Byelorussia...
...Carefully concealed all foreign aid, such as the $250 million UNRRA has allocated to Byelorussia and the Ukraine. (No wartime budget ever mentioned Lend-Lease, though experts calculate that it provided one-fifth of the 1945 budget.) ¶Increased the already liberal allowances for mothers as an incentive to still larger Soviet families. Payments range from 400 rubles for a third child to 5,000 for each one after the tenth, plus monthly allowances of 80 to 300 rubles. For bearing five or more children, mothers get the Medal of Maternal Glory...