Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your cover story on Khrushchev [July 22] was fine. The article, translated into workingman's Russian, should be showered on Russia in leaflets...
...Sent his "very good wishes" to the people of Communist Poland on the 13th anniversary of the establishment of a provisional Communist government in Lublin after the Russian "liberation" of eastern Poland from the retreating Nazi armies in World...
...million watched a military parade as big as last year's, with Soviet rocket launchers and tanks, and, overhead, Soviet-made jet bombers and fighters flashing good form in their first flypast (but showing gaps on the second pass because some were unable to keep in formation). The Russian arms were impressive, but conspicuously missing from the parade were last year's armed units from other Arab nations. It was a revealing indication of Nasser's diminished popularity with other Arab governments...
...offer goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant (though direct Russian-Indian trade is at present only 3.2% of India's overall foreign trade...
Died. Maurice Sterne (real name: Schlossberg), 79, Russian-born painter, sculptor and draftsman, who painted (1935-40) the 20 huge murals in the Department of Justice library in Washington, at one time received $10,000-$12,000 a painting, his work growing abruptly more impressionistic and evocative during World War II; after long illness; in Mount Kisco...