Word: russian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communism and Capitalism. Russian Communists were as hostile toward Thomas as he was toward them. Leon Trotsky once rumbled: "Norman Thomas called himself a socialist as a result of misunderstanding." But the real issue, Thomas insisted, was not Communism against capitalism. It was democracy against totalitarianism. In 1959, he ventured a prediction for the future of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: "If we and the Soviet Union escape war in the next 30 years, we'll both wind up practically with the same economic system. I emphasize the word economic. It will be the welfare state writ large...
...Prague consequently assumed that all was normal. In fact, Czechoslovak's President Ludvik Svoboda and Party Chief Alexander Dubcek, along with three other leaders, had flown hurriedly to the Ukrainian city of Kiev for their fourth summit meeting with Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev since the Russian invasion. Only after the session ended last week were Czechoslovaks informed that it had been held. That fact, and the manner in which the meeting was convened, constituted bleak proof that Czechoslovakia remained an uneasy prey to Russia's whims...
...have seen much of the excitement-and freedom-that was generated during Dubcek's early stewardship wither away under Soviet pressure. When TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who covered both the idyl and the ordeal, recently returned to Prague after an absence of two months, he found that the Russian presence was certainly the No. 1 reality in Czechoslovakia. Yet much of the country's mood, he found, remained resilient. For-bath's report...
From a wooden watchtower jutting out of the barren, frost-coated countryside, a Russian soldier leaned against his .50-cal. machine gun and peered through field glasses at an approaching car. As it neared the gate, two other Soviet soldiers threateningly waved it back with the barrels of their attack rifles. This was the Milovice-Mlada military reservation, where some 20,000 occupation troops have taken up residence about 25 miles north of Prague. With perhaps 300 tanks in their "panzer park," a supply system that brings in everything from candy bars to jet fuel, and a booming...
Fiddler on the Roof--Now in its fifth year and still in great shape, this powerful Stein-Bock-Hasnick-Robbins musical drama weaves Sholom Aleichem's "Tevye" stories into a panoramic view of the breakdown of tradition in Russian-Jewish society. Harry Goz is Tevye and Rae Allen is his wife. At the MAJESTIC, W. 44th...