Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both flyers had been regular listeners to the "Voice of America" broadcasts. Said Barsov: "I believe everyone within range who has a radio listens to the broadcasts . . . The Russian people are really interested in life in the United States and they know the Soviet press and radio are not giving the true picture...
Perhaps the biggest and best news in the world last week concerned Western Germany, on whose battered pits and blast furnaces and factories depend Europe's future and (very likely) the world's peace. Western Germany was what the "Berlin crisis" was all about. The Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including...
...last week, Radio Moscow announced that Russian troops had begun to pull out of North Korea. On the same day, a Communist-inspired revolt broke out in Korea's southern...
...Russian withdrawal in the north worried South Koreans more than did the vest-pocket southern uprising. The Russians were leaving behind them a firmly installed Communist regime with a well-trained army of 150,000. The departure of the Red army was intended to bring pressure on the U.S. to withdraw its troops, leaving a South Korean constabulary and militia totaling about 60,000 to face the far stronger northern force...
...Race. Most listeners had lately found a new maturity and depth-if not yet real warmth-in the playing of Vladimir Horowitz, the sallow, thin-faced Russian who first astounded the U.S. 20 years ago with his mastery of piano technique...