Word: fatherland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start of their national elections last Sunday. The news apparently put the voters into the proper frame of mind. For the Red Fatherland Front slate (there was no other slate), 4,500,000, or almost 100%, voted a Russian...
...case before the trial started, eagerly drove home the point which Tito wanted to make with the Sarajevo performance. "Soviet leaders," he said, "in the struggle to subdue Yugoslavia, were forced to use these notorious spies and enemies of progress . . . [They] exploited these miserable people without a fatherland . . . because, in all Yugoslavia, they could not find Yugoslavs to do their dirty work...
...Education Minister Oscar Ivanissevich comes to work, he goes through a little ceremony. First he bows deeply before the portraits of President Peron and la Señora. Then, flinging open the French windows, he fills his lungs with 100% Argentine air. Finally he shouts ecstatically: "Good morning, my Fatherland...
...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
Soviet Arts Committee, last week published an exposé of conditions under the big top. "Only by fully unmasking ... in the arenas of Soviet circuses alien bourgeois tendencies can Soviet circus art achieve a new renaissance and become a genuine expression of the strength of our great fatherland," the article said. Circus managers were attacked for "trying to replace the healthy Soviet circus, with its ideology, optimism and purposefulness, with empty, formalistic imitations...