Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like any good Communist, he obeyed. The New Masses' Whittaker Chambers vanished. A man known simply as "Carl" appeared in the Red "cells" and in the innermost circles of the Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled vegetables in Lynbrook became a skillful and consecrated agent of a Communist "apparatus...
...goes like this: a delegation of U.S. trade unionists visiting Moscow is taken to a huge factory. One car stands outside the building. An American asks: "Whose is this plant?" "It belongs to the workers." "And whose is this car?" "The car belongs to the director." Later on, some Russian unionists return the visit. Their American colleagues take them to Detroit. They stop before a huge factory building where several thousand cars are lined up. A Russian asks: "Whose factory is this?" "It is Ford's." "And to whom do these cars belong?" "Why, they belong to the workers...
Many features of Soviet law are due to the poverty of the Russian legal tradition, Berman said in his first lecture. However, he added it is now attempting to give legal expression to positive elements in the Russian tradition, which, before the Revolution, were extra-legal in character...
Berman referred to a passage in Sumner Welles' book, "Where Are We Heading?" in which the late President Roosevelt expresses the feeling that Russian law is growing more like ours, and ours more like Russia's, but that the two shall always remain somewhat different...
...interesting in that it shows how producers of "B" pictures have jumped on the "hate-Russia" bandwagon. Instead of cattle rustlers or foreign baddies of obscure allegiance, this touching and horrible little epic of the far north has a real live Soviet Union as the agent of evil. One Russian thug is even made up to look just like Stalin, to clear up any doubts the audience might have...