Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks powerful Moscow transmitters have interrupted German news broadcasts with a raucous, heckling voice called Ivan The Terrible or Der Snag (TIME, Sept. 8), which yells such comments as "Hitler kicks the bucket!" By last week the Axis had learned how to heckle back...
This incident did not take place in Russia. It happened at a tank factory in the British Midlands. The man and woman from Omsk were Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan Maisky & wife. The workers were good beef-eating, royalty-loving British munitions laborers. Last week was Tanks-for-Russia Week, and the British were so eager to help the Russians that they acted like Russians themselves...
...such words only made the British people miserable, especially when they heard Russian words, like Ambassador Ivan Maisky's: "We need tanks, more tanks, and yet more tanks." They carried many British back to Paul Reynaud's cry for "clouds of war planes...
...loving Russians appear to have devised another way of needling the Nazis by radio (TIME, Sept. 8). According to United Press's listening post, last week there screamed forth from Moscow a character billed as "Ivan the Terrible," who gave in German an amazing imitation of Adolf Hitler. Der Führer has not yet made his annual speech for the Winter Help drive, so Ivan the Terrible made one for him. Excerpt: "So long as I am Germany's Leader, I will lead you from victory to victory to the final catastrophe. I will lead this...
Center. Over boggy terrain in the Gomel area, Lieut. General Ivan Stepanovich Konev hurled pistonlike counterattacks. Russians claimed they had stopped the Nazi drive on Moscow in its tracks. The Nazis acknowledged that Russian "new armies" had made heavy counter assaults, but insisted they had been smothered. The Red Air Force announced a bag of 500 planes for the week ending...