Word: russia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West. For the bemused "liberals" who have protested that the Chinese Communists were mere harmless "agrarian democrats," Mao had news. He said his regime was and for the immediate future would continue to be a "dictatorship." For those who have insisted that the Chinese Reds got no help from Russia, Mao (who should know) said that the victory of the Red revolution in China would have been impossible without the aid of the U.S.S.R. He said that the "masses" in many countries, including the U.S., had relieved reactionary pressure against the Chinese revolution...
Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught...
Soft Music. The hero of the Reichstag trial was ailing and growing old. On public occasions he rouged his cheeks to appear younger. Last April, he left his job as Premier of Bulgaria, went to Russia to "rest." There were the usual rumors of liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...
...Nails. In the hall, weary newsmen despaired when Claude, the beer and sandwich man, went home muttering "No one pays me to stay after 12." Even an OEEC official said: "The West can never agree without Russia. When Russia is present we have no trouble agreeing to stand together, but when Russia is away," he shrugged his shoulders, "look at this...
...Russia. 5. Canada...