Word: krokodil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...
Behind the Iron Curtain last week, the business of being funny had struck a depression. Moscow's leading humorous weekly Krokodil had been called on the Kremlin carpet for "not fulfilling its purpose." In Poland, a Satirists' Congress was told sternly that jokes involving sex and mothers-in-law were no longer considered funny, though humor could still be drawn from the petty bourgeoisie, the bureaucrat and the speculator. Elsewhere, however, people swapped yarns just as they had before. Here & there TIME'S correspondents paused to listen...
...Soviet press dutifully tuned up on variations of the Zhdanov theme. Krokodil featured a cartoon showing the bronze horses atop the Bolshoi Theater's portico fleeing in all directions from the strains of Muradeli's opera, Great Friendship...
...consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people's acute wants to discredit the rich U.S. Recently, the Soviet press reported that the U.S. was dumping potatoes to keep prices up, and the magazine Krokodil shed some tears...
...translating such letters and a host of foreign periodicals ranging from the Russian Krokodil to the Neue Schweizer Rundschau may fall to almost anybody in TIME'S employ-in or out of the Editorial Departments. TIME'S Personnel Division keeps a file of everyone in the company who speaks any foreign language fluently. (In case there is a sudden need for quick translation, we can be fluent at the drop of a telephone in 28 languages ranging from Afrikaans to Ukrainian...