Word: plebian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Footwear & Philosophers. At home Russia's new masters have made specific and grandiose promises of more consumer goods, including TV sets and "elegant footwear." The Stalin auto works, which once produced nothing but the huge limousines that Stalin favored, has been converted to the manufacture of plebian bicycles. The Kremlin itself, which Stalin had made a symbol of dark terror, has been flung open to tourists and its rooms made over for children's celebrations and public meetings. The members of the junta have taken to bounding around the country like so many politicians running for office: Malenkov...