Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy is in a state of great upsurge," proclaimed Chief Soviet Planner Aleksei Kosygin last week, and Radio Moscow, going further, called Russia the "greatest power in the world." The occasion was one of the rare gatherings...
Keeping Time. As usual, to make a show of debate, delegates were allowed to nitpick a few details. Thus a Moscow bank clerk complained that the Ministry of Culture was hoarding quantities of furniture, including 224 clocks. Then delegates unanimously approved both the budget and the 1960 plan. After all, everything was subject to change anyway: last year's plan was changed 37 times, and the chief planner himself was replaced...
...Gomulka himself for his mistakes as chief economic planner from 1954 to 1956. Another deputy premiership went to Julian Tokarski, the pre-Gomulka Minister of Motorcar Industry whose clumsiness in rebuffing worker demands led to the Poznan riots of June 1956. A third advocate of harsh centralized controls, Moscow-oriented Tadeusz Gede, was elevated to a prominent post in the State Economic Planning Commission...
...Cabinet. Following an election in which the Communists captured 50 of 200 parliamentary seats and emerged as the strongest single party, the republic's anti-Communist forces banded together to form a five-party coalition government. Flouting its postwar treaty pledge of "noninterference in other states' affairs," Moscow brought economic pressure to bear to destroy the coalition and succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer...
...Subversion." The importance of Science and Religion lies not in its contents but in its appearance at this late date after God's official demise in the U.S.S.R. And this is not the only evidence that religion in Russia is far from limited to dying-off old folks. Moscow's Izvestia is devoting column after indignant column to the "subversive"' doings of Russian Baptists-grown from 100,000 before the Revolution to about 500,000 today. Typical of Izvestia's reports from all over is a letter telling how one Lukeria Sevchuk was converted by Baptists...