Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gelfands' achievements were particularly "miraculous," said Holdhaber, in light of the severe oppression of Jews in turn of the-century Russia Goldhaber read from Ida Gelfand's memoirs, which describe the hardships the Gelfands, both Jewish, had endured on the way to receiving their dental licenses...
...words were President Harry Truman's. He meant the Communist seizure of Hungary. It was no ill-considered, uncalculated outburst. The President had had a week to prepare his answer to Russia's challenge of the Truman Doctrine. Warned the President: the U.S. will not stand idly...
Before the day was out, George Marshall struck at one of Russia's most sensitive nerves. At Harvard's commencement exercises, where he accepted an honorary doctorate of laws, the Secretary of State answered the Russian challenge by urging an economically integrated Europe. Europe must get together on its needs. Henceforth, U.S. help would be on a Europe-wide, not a nation-by-nation, basis...
...RUSSIA Proof of Weakness...
...Communism's 37 years in power in Russia, leaders have fallen from power in dramatically diverse ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...