Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
...Freudian psychoanalysis and the use of analytic principles in psychiatry, Snezhnevsky & Ko. gave a firm nyet. "We reject psychoanalysis," he said, "because its methods and theory are unscientific. Psychoanalysis rejects the material basis of psychological life. We use instead rational psychotherapy-we prefer to work with the conscious mind, where we find the material bases for mental illnesses...
...Virgin Lands. Two days later Khrushchev appeared at a Cuban embassy reception to read another piece of paper-mostly about the Soviet Union's desire for peace in places like the Congo, Laos, Cuba. Khrushchev roared with laughter as Mikoyan started shouting "Cuba da, Yankee nyet!" Asked by reporters about the 1960 harvest, which is thought in the West to have lagged 20% below plans, Khrushchev said, "It was not as bad as the previous year," but still left room for improvement. "That explains the reorganization of the Virgin Lands," he volunteered, and dropped the first word that tubby...