Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited Victory. In Moscow, the Russians had agreed to lift the blockade if the Russian mark were accepted as Berlin's only money. The Russians might use their currency as an effective weapon to conquer Berlin in the long run-depending partly on just how the men around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
Symbol of a City. Some impenitent Germans were cockily confident that their anti-Russian hatred was the only certificate they needed to be acclaimed as valiant brothers in the Western fraternity. Rage at this fact misses the truth that in Berlin today tens of thousands of other Germans are risking their lives to defy Communist tyranny. Tens of thousands, within sight of Red Army tanks, are fighting Communism openly and well. They know that if the Communists ever control all Berlin, they will be done for. They fear war, like all reasonable men; they would be the first to feel...
House for All. Drafting a constitution for a Western German state at the suggestion of the Western powers was an act of political courage. The Communist argument that a Western German government would split the nation has been losing ground ever since the Russians laid brutal siege to Berlin. Westphalia's Minister President Karl Arnold spoke of the Germans now under Russian domination: "We must be sure that what we construct will some day be a good house for all Germans...
When the eulogies were finished, Andrei Zhdanov was lowered into a grave beside the Kremlin's wall and behind Lenin's mausoleum. It was a hole about equal in size to the living space Russian housing provides for the average Russian...
...collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian Orthodox Church-had been working, planning and praying together...