Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...
...Bulgaria, the Fatherland Front's Georgi Dimitroff continued his ruthless campaign against the opposition, checked slightly by the presence of U.S. political representative Maynard Barnes and by the fact that Bulgaria needs U.S. economic aid. For the second time, Moscow urged the Bulgarian Government to throw out Barnes; for the second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign...
Stalin, said Moscow Radio, had drafted the orders "utilizing the rich and many-sided experience of the Great Fatherland War," and "permeated with . . . solicitude for the might of the Soviet Armed Forces." But there was no doubt that Stalin was permeated also by solicitude over the fact that in the wake of the Great Fatherland War, undisciplined occupation troops proved Russia's most potent ambassadors of ill will...
...Democracy is sometimes called the dictatorship of the proletariat. Dictatorship of the proletariat in fact is democracy in action. ... As long as dictatorship acts in the name of the people for the welfare of the fatherland, it is sacred. When it acts against the people, it is criminal. In Russia, our regime is one of democratic dictatorship...
...Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...