Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cardinal's words had extra political weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...
...election campaign, when it became clear that many voters, incensed at having few candidates but Communists to vote for, were planning to stay away from the polls or scratch out the Communist names. Either action would have gravely jeopardized Gomulka's position and brought the threat of Russian intervention. All across Poland parish priests told their flocks what would be required of them, and bishops ostentatiously dropped undeleted ballots into the boxes. Cardinal...
Wyszynski, however, voted late at an unexpected polling place in an effort to avoid newspictures that might identify him too closely with a Communist-even if not a Russian Communist-regime...
Within a few days of the election, Wyszynski had another chance to stave off disaster. A group of students in a college near Warsaw decided to stage a march on the Russian embassy, gathering support as they went along. It was 2 a.m. when the cardinal awoke to find a young student standing by his bed. The student explained the plan, and warned: "They are going to march at 4." Wyszynski leapt from his bed and sped to the college, where he roused the students and announced that he would say Mass. The would-be demonstrators thought that...
...affront to most Frenchmen; its story of British colonialism's bitter fruit in Kenya unhappily resembles France's current gory predicament in Algeria. M-G-M unhappily scratched this entry. Most sensational movie shown in Cannes was the Soviet Union's The Forty-First, marking the Russian moviemakers' discovery that sex can be a more interesting theme than Stakhanovism. The film's heroine, a Bolshevik sniperette, fresh from mowing down 40 White Russians in the 1917 Revolution's aftermath, finds herself marooned on a Caspian isle with a handsome Czarist officer. Peeling off their...