Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Molotov because he sometimes hinted vaguely at being of Russian origin and because he was jubilant over Russian victories. He was called the Mayor of Broadway because of his equally vague and Bunyanesque tales about the life he led in New York. Actually he had been a busboy in a nightclub...
Zapotocky's history was the standard success story of the Communist who works in the shadows, waiting for his moment. In the days of the Habsburgs he was a stonecutter and a Social Democrat. When, after World War I, Lenin changed the name of Russian Bolshevism from Social Democracy to Communism, Zapotocky changed his label too. He became one of the first Communist deputies in free Czechoslovakia's politically tolerant Parliament. After Hitler came, Zapotocky spent six years behind barbed wires at Sachsenhausen, moved from there into the presidency of the Czechoslovak Revolutionary Trade Union Movement and resumed...
...magazine Tekhnika Molodezhy (Technology for Youth) tossed off a few more sparks. Russians, reiterated Tekhnika, had invented the electric arc, the electric light, the electric motor and high-tension power transmissions. And how had the capitalist U.S. utilized these Russian gifts to mankind? By inventing the electric chair, which, "lately, has been used more & more to do away with revolutionary workers condemned to death with the assistance of dirty police provocation...
...lamentable fact overlooked by Trud: when reports of Franklin's experiment reached Russia, Russian Scientist Georgy V. Richwan lofted a bigger, more aggressive kite and electrocuted himself...
...commission of professors-headed by a Frenchman, an Englishman, an American, and a Russian-had finally agreed on a new Outline of History suitable for young German minds. They had carefully ironed out Nazi distortions-and had added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted to say a good deal about "The Shady Aspects of Celibacy" when discussing the Renaissance church. The other powers said no; but they agreed to let him have a chapter on "The Class Struggle on the Eve of the Reformation...