Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago a huge billboard covered with propaganda posters of the Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (SED) attracted unusual attention in the heart of bomb-shattered Dresden in the Russian zone. Plastered squarely in the center of the billboard was a red poster bearing the slogan: "Wir haben kein Papier, aber wir sind auch hier" (We have no paper, but we are also here). The poster was signed by the anti-Communist Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Firemen soon tore down the poster, but thousands of Dresdeners had enjoyed a good chuckle...
Rare as a Swastika. The Dresden billboard incident points up only one of many direct and indirect methods the Russians have employed to give the SED maximum advantages over the other two parties, CDU and Liberal Democrats (LDP). Lampposts, streetcars, newspaper kiosks, billboards and public buildings scream with SED campaign posters throughout the Russian zone, but CDU and LDP posters are almost as rare as a swastika. In the Land of Saxony, the SED has a daily newspaper with a million circulation. The LDP organ, appearing thrice weekly, has 50,000 circulation and the CDU newspaper, with 35,000 circulation...
...could build a great, warming fire." Even so, two years later the Goebbels press decided that her kind of dancing was "modern degeneracy." She was chased out of Berlin, but the Nazis-torn between using her prestige and denouncing her art-allowed her to carry on a school in Dresden...
...Soon the Dresden press began to howl that her dances were un-Nordic. Wigman moved on to Leipzig, was still dancing a little, teaching a little, when the Russians found her. Russian reporters interviewed her and respectfully printed her opinions on the dance, but obviously still preferred their own graceful classic ballet to Wigman's somewhat gymnastic, angular and austere style. Russian authorities readily gave her permission to go on lecture tours and to reopen her school. The time has come, she announced last week, to start building the great, warming fire...
...station master greets him: "Ah, Signor Farkas, welcome." At the Hotel Paradiso, the manager bows and scrapes. Three Nazi officers staying at the Paradiso are impressed, try to make conversation. "Herr Farkas," says one, "my wife has just written me. She went to see a play of yours. In Dresden. She enjoyed it tremendously." Farkas stares, smiles coldly, answers in French. He has no love for Nazis or for Fascists...