Word: puppeteering
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...spring of 1946, a little man named Hussein Ala, envoy from Iran, stood before the U.N. Security Council and unflinchingly insisted that the Russian army get out of his country. Sullenly, the Red army withdrew. The Communist puppet government of Azerbaijan in northern Iran collapsed. This was the first important postwar setback for Communist aggression-and the first great post-war symbol of the free world's strength. Thoughtful men, while they rejoiced, realized that the victory would be empty unless the U.S. moved rapidly to aid Iran, which was economically prostrate and politically shaky...
Obraslov told his German colleagues that German puppet plays were not up to revolutionary par, that they failed to stress present-day themes. Concluded Obraslov: "You must attack evil conditions...
Kasperle's new model should be his Russian cousin Petrushka. The Bolsheviks first banished Petrushka from the Russian puppet stage, as "an outdated anarchist figure." After the building of the Soviet state, Obraslov said, Puppet Petrushka was revived "and given significant tasks." German puppeteers, however, must be careful not to turn the converted Kasperle into a Communist Party functionary. Warned Obraslov: "It would do harm not only to party functionaries but to the personality of Kasperle himself...
Loyally responding to the challenge, one German delegate outlined the plot of a brand-new puppet play recently produced in Dresden. Its heroine, a little girl named Annamie, writes a letter to Stalin saying: "You never have any time, you poor man, to sleep at night, because you have to work for peace day & night." Touched, Stalin invites Annamie to visit him in the Kremlin...
While she is there, the Devil, a traditional puppet character now togged out as an American spy, enters and attempts to lure Stalin away from his peacemaking. The Devil is promptly killed. Shortly thereafter, Death himself arrives to inform Stalin that his time is up. "Oh no," pleads Stalin, "I am so busy, I have to work for peace!" Impressed, Death exits gracefully and leaves Stalin master of the scene...