Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friendship Week. Stalin's problem-and Ana's-was how to bind Rumania to Moscow by means more subtle and less costly than the Red army. Complicating factors were the anti-Communist and anti-Russian feelings, of the Rumanian people. One day in 1945 Ana Pauker's great & good friend Vishinsky flew to Bucharest. He insisted that Pietru Groza be made Premier...
Pawnshop City. Today, there are less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
Oldtime Party Leader Lucretiu Patra-scanu was ousted from the Ministry of Justice and jailed, along with his wife, a few months ago. There is no question of baksheesh in his case. His sin is in wanting a Communist Rumania for the Rumanian, rather than the Russian, Communists...
...Warsaw the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party roasted Gomulka, Vice Premier and the party's secretary general, over a Moscow-kindled ideological fire. In party jargon, Gomulka was charged with four cardinal sins: 1) he lacked "understanding of the . . . leading role of the Russian Communist Party in the international front combating [U.S.] imperialism"; 2) he suffered from nationalism; 3) he had an "unconquered and repeatedly renascent social democratic attitude"; 4) he had a "tendency to postpone the struggle against capitalist elements feeding upon exploitation of the poor and medium-sized peasantry...
Ferdinand's chance came in 1887. Stefan Stambolov, Bulgaria's anti-Russian, anti-Turkish "Bismarck," looking around for a new prince, settled on Clementine's Ferdinand. Subsequently, a contemporary account records, Ferdinand, a "handsome, smiling, slender youth, perfectly corseted, lips and cheeks bravely rouged, leaving in his wake an exotic perfume, rode gallantly into Sofia amid the cheers of his devoted people." His confidence in his people's devotion was not unbounded; he kept a pistol on his desk when receiving visitors...