Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet proposal is a good deal simpler than the Western plan, and hence it is easier to dismiss. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has asked that the Big Four sign separate peace treaties with the "two German states" and then undertake the joint administration of West Berlin as a "free city." Western acceptance of this plan means recognition of East Germany, abandonment of the traditional policy of re-unification through free elections, and admission that while the East Germans have a right to East Berlin as their "capital" West Berlin must remain under political tutelage--with a new and rather...
...Russians do not accept these concessions, chiefly because they know that a soverign Germany set up under any conditions (except with Russian soldiers counting the ballots) will march right into NATO at the first legal opportunity; they cannot afford a setback of this kind. So any compromise on re-unification will have to give Germany less than complete sovereignty in her foreign affairs...
...course, although the Russians have offered proposals similar to this one on several occasions in the past, they are not likely to accept it now. Almost any form of re-unification could be acceptable to the West, except one that involved the entry of Soviet troops into West Germany (Russian soldiers form rapid attachments to places they visit, and they just hate to go home). The Soviets seem to be taking the attitude of "Nobody really wants to unify Germany" and are concentrating rather on hardening and formalizing the lines that currently divide Europe...
What this elaborate training system accomplishes is 1) the preservation of a great Russian dance tradition and 2) the dazzling acrobatic skill and cheerful dedication that somehow bring conviction to even the hoariest ballet plots. What the Russians' training does not give them is new ideas; their great weakness is oldfashioned, unimaginative choreography and a concentration on emotional music, uncomplicated stories and characterizations of line-drawn simplicity...
Time Walked, by Vera Panova. An apolitical but warmly Russian account of the tides in the life of a six-year...