Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ukase from the Tsar, and for years "electricity" used to be a magic word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today all standard Soviet handbooks state that...
Intourist simply does not use the direct railway line from Dnepropetrovsk to Ros-tov-on-Don. Instead an Intourist tourist must go all the way back up to Kharkov and then down to Rostov. The Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans...
...genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding a Communist State at all. Today Dictator Stalin is creating as much in the way of Russian centres of industry and war bases as possible behind the Ural Mountains. It is no secret that the Soviet General Staff have plans ready, in case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon Leningrad, Moscow and the whole portion of the Soviet Union...
...Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
...with a siege. The body of the picture contains a massacre, a fight between a bear and a man, two horse-whippings, several murders, the spectacle of an executioner drawing a red-hot sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding an army at Irkutsk, that reinforcements...