Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protracted enmity toward China by the United States merely because it is Communist would deliver China even more to Russian control and would destroy the unsteady contacts this nation still has in China, Fairbank warned...
...very difficult, Fairbank said, to ascertain how closely the Chinese adhere to the Russian political line. "Some Americans who have just returned from Peking told me the Chinese Communists are still very nationalistic...
...same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...
...school year moved into full swing, Hungarian students of all ages were struggling with the outlandish Cyrillic alphabet, the baffling prodigies of Russian grammar. Last term, when language courses were still optional, 53% of them chose German, 30% English, 29% French, and only 3% Russian. Now, with the study of Russian compulsory in all grades of primary and secondary schools, pupils are required to spend more time learning "the language of socialism" than any other subject except Hungarian language and literature...
Then the family moved to China. In Shanghai, it was easy to find good Russian teachers. One of them, George Goncharov (who now teaches at Sadler's Wells), recalls that "directly I saw her I knew she had a ballerina's head. Her face-she was very attractive with big, dark eyes-seemed to talk to me. She held herself beautifully. She was always somehow intent, as though she had some idea that she knew what she was about...