Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While it would be unfair to Premier Khrushchev to consider Prime Minister Macmillan's recent Russian trip a triumph for the West, much more has been gained by it than might have been expected...
Macmillan had few illusions of success when he arrived in Moscow wearing his fabled fur hat, and throughout his visit he was reasonable, firm and articulate. Even when Khrushchev turned from geniality to insolence, reversing what he called the Russian tradition of beginning a meal with tart foods and ending with sweet ones, Macmillan remained receptive yet firm. He had come, he said, to explain the position of the West and to learn at first hand the attitude of the Russians on the problem of Berlin and central Europe...
...series of unusually frank talks, he did exactly this. His negotiations with the Russian leaders were climaxed by what one normally anti-British newspaper called "one of the memorable public utterances of our generation," an uncensored radio and television speech to the Russian people in which he asserted the advantage of political and economic freedom...
...said, 'If I were doing that I naturally wouldn't tell you or anyone else, but I did work for military intelligence before the war.' " To Churchill, Burgess appeared to be "a lonely and unhappy man who has ruined his life." He now works for a Russian publishing house, says that he had quarreled with his Co-Conspirator MacLean and scarcely ever sees him, and told Churchill, "I am still a Communist and a homosexual...
Comrade Venka, written during the temporary thaw after Stalin's death, was a big bestseller in Russia. Its plea for ordinary human decency is commonplace, but its point that party realism results in cruelty is so carefully spelled out that no Russian reader could have missed it. Unlike Boris Pasternak, his neighbor in the Moscow suburb of Peredelkino, Novelist Nilin attempted no sweeping indictment of Communist inhumanity. Still, his little, almost boyish novel may be read as a sign that many Russians have their doubts about the Communist world...