Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...
...Kaputt. "Shortly after the [Russian] occupation Elli, Hanna and Margret were visited by [Red army] soldiers, who told them to go away with them immediately for three days' work ... Agnes would have been taken in the same way, but the Russians who came for her were apparently unnerved by the screams of the children who saw her going. Next day, however . . . she was arrested...
...Russian Caucasus, viniculturists like Armenian Marker Grigoryan have been producing champagne by more generally accepted methods. By the new process, for which Chemist Frolov-Bagreev received a Stalin Prize, the champagne will be speedily fermented in giant 1,300-gallon containers. A new factory-"the largest in Europe"-will be specially built in Moscow. Its products will include white champagne, as well as sweet and demi-sweet pink champagne...
...average Russian is not likely to be jubilant over the news. Champagne has long been used to wash down caviar at official Soviet blowouts. But at 80 rubles a bottle (the equivalent of three days' average pay), champagne for Ivan is still as unattainable as the stars...
German-born Novelist Thomas Mann, who once found grievous fault with German intellectuals for not fighting Naziism ("This monstrous German attempt at world domination ... is nothing but a distorted and unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...