Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open clashes with authority but to press for legal concessions, e.g., shorter working hours, lower prices in the state stores. East Germany's 88,000 students, however, have shown open irritation with the fact that almost one-third of their study time is taken up with Communist indoctrination, Russian language lessons, and "sport and technology," i.e., guerrilla training. At East Berlin's Humboldt University last November, as students gathered on the campus to discuss the Hungarian situation, clandestine leaflets came floating down from the rooftops. WE DEMAND MORE THOROUGH TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SOCIETY FOR SPORT...
...Russia's climb from a plow-horse to a horsepower economy, the Five-Year Plan, or Piatiletka, was a dramatic slogan as well as an effective method of primitive state planning. But when the sixth Piatiletka arrived last year, the word had lost its power for millions of Russian workers, case-hardened by 30 years of ceaseless urging to achieve ever higher production norms. Last week the Soviet leaders indicated that they were ready to drop the old Piatiletki for a more relaxed method of planning and executing the progress of their national economy...
...week, 200 foreign and Communist correspondents found batteries of kleig lights and TV cameras focused on four pale men surrounded by a curious array of pistols, explosives, maps. Soviet currency, miniature radio transmitters, parachutes and poison pills. Soviet Foreign Ministry Press Chief Leonid Ilyichev identified the four men as Russian refugees, recruited as spies by the U.S. and parachuted into the Soviet Union...
...almost twelve years Russia and its Baltic neighbor, Sweden, have been in a bitter dispute over the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, a slender, balding Swedish-legation attache who was picked up by Russian secret police in Budapest near the end of World War II. When the NKVD drove him off to Marshal Malinovsky's headquarters on Jan. 17, 1945, Wallenberg said: "I'm going to Malinovsky's . . . whether as a guest or prisoner I do not know yet." Those were the last words ever heard from...
Without Post-Mortem. Then the curtain descended. Shortly after Wallenberg was picked up by the NKVD, a Russian official in Stockholm declared: "Wallen berg is not really a prisoner. He committed some follies after liberation; therefore he had to be taken care of. He will return soon safe and sound...