Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preparations. In the three years since Red China swept into Tibet, it has transformed the ancient Forbidden Land into a stronghold; its "liberation army" now numbers an estimated 60,000 men. Since the Korean armistice, the Chinese have moved reinforcements south towards Tibet and India...
...Chinese are building all-weather, heavy-traffic roads across the mountains, linking their garrisons; they are opening Lhasa, the Forbidden City, to China proper and to Russia. Peking newspapers now reach Lhasa in ten days; before Mao they took several months. One 1,400-mile road starts from Sinkiang, at the edge of Russia, and curves through Tibet parallel to the Indian frontier (see map). From this strategic cord, side roads will point toward every major pass of the Himalayan mountains. The Chinese Communists are also laying down airfields in western Tibet, using Russian engineers and Russian equipment...
...East Berlin, Gerhart Eisler, onetime top U.S. Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
Church attendance, although not forbidden outright, has been cleverly discouraged. "Even when church services are permitted," says Merwin, "the church buildings are used for political meetings or for barracks or granaries...
...Soviet restrictions would allow: from Leningrad on the Finnish Gulf to Tiflis in the Caucasus and Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...