Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development of a Soviet judicial system, which was undertaken that year is still in progress, Berman explained. Andrei Vishinsky, present chief Russian delegate to the UN, has been instrumental in the construction of the Soviet...
...entire German Sixth Army, which in the summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...
...attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely useful as anti-Nazi propaganda, it is still the only book of any note which describes any part of the recent war through German eyes. Whether it is historically accurate in every detail is open to question, but the fact remains that it presents the Wagnerian...
...into simple narrative. It begins with the nightmare existence of a soldier in one of the notorious punishment companies, a man who has lived through so many years of deaths and explosions land burying details that he scarcely knows whether he is alive himself. As the pressure of Russian attacks forces the German line closer and closer together and the regiments beat their aimless retreat across miles of snow-swept steppes into Stalingrad proper, Plievier introduces many miscellaneous characters who appear briefly, disappear are forgotten by the reader, and reappear again somewhere else...
This story doesn't end on the last page of the novel. Field Marshal Von Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army, joined the so-called Free Germany Committee shortly after his capture. This group was made up of German ex-officers in Russian captivity, who became opposed to Nazism and were carefully trained to form a pro-Russian puppet administration in Germany. Today Von Paulus is said to be commanding an army of pro-Communist German veterans--a ghost army somewhere in eastern Europe, ready to pounce when the time comes. Theodor Plievier himself came to Germany...