Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under savage and provocative Russian pressure in Berlin, the U.S. refused to abandon Europe's helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...
...last trace of doubt about the nature of the enemy had disappeared. In Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk jumped to his death, the tragic figure of thousands of men of good will who stubbornly held to the theory that the liberal can work with the Communist. In Manhattan, a distraught Russian schoolteacher leaped from an upper window in the Soviet consulate to escape return to Russia. More than speeches, reports or eyewitness accounts of life under Communism, her act nakedly revealed the bitter despair behind the glowing promises in Communism's workers' paradise...
Duggan's name, Mundt said, had cropped up at a secret hearing held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities early in December. At that time, Russian-born Isaac Don Levine, an ex-Hearstling who edits the anti-Communist publication Plain Talk and who collaborated with General W. G. Krivitsky on his memoirs, had made a damaging charge. He said that in 1939 he had heard ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers tell former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle that Duggan was one of six men from whom Communists had obtained secret documents...
What goes on inside? Probably no one outside of the Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities...
Composer Dmitri Shostakovich was in Dutch again with his Russian masters. Earlier in the year he had been in the dialectic doghouse, then let out when Pravda praised his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music" for the movie Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25). Now it looked as if Dmitri was back where he started: after thinking it over, the Union of Soviet Composers called a special audition to listen carefully for possible bourgeois discords in his Young Guard music...