Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such action would fall miserably short of its goal in the long run. Israel would not wither and die. Instead, the new state would cast about for allies, and finding Soviet Russia eager to expand its sphere of influence, would accept Russian economic and military aid. With this rapprochement between Israel and the Soviet completed, American and British statesmen could congratulate themselves on moving their enemy some 800 miles closer to the Suez Canal...
Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
...messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced and simultaneous view of the U.S., British and Russian positions as events created and altered them; 3) a thoroughly documented look at the Big Three (F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin) in action, from the vantage point of an expert dramatist who was often on the scene he describes...