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Word: russianizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still needed a lesson in the ways and meaning of Russian Communism, it was a week of disjointed but sobering education. Bits & pieces of the text were scattered everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Lesson | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...chapter was to be found in Moscow, where Russian obduracy had blocked all attempts to relieve the siege of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). Another appeared in the testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Lesson | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...most sharply etched lesson of all was given in Manhattan by a dumpy little Russian schoolteacher who had been ordered to return to her homeland. Imprisoned by her countrymen, she decided that it was better to risk death instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Lesson | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...third-floor room at the Russian consulate, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina nervously snapped off the mid-afternoon news broadcast. She walked to one of the windows overlooking the courtyard below, and wrenched it open. She stood there a moment-a plump, distraught, middle-aged woman in a ruffled blue dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Kidnap or Rescue? The Russian consulate is a five-story stone Manhattan town house (leased from the niece of the late John D. Rockefeller) on fashionable East 61st Street, across from the Hotel Pierre. Newsmen had been posted outside its grillwork door for five days-ever since Oksana Kosenkina had been brought there from an anti-Soviet refugee camp in New York by Consul General Jacob Lomakin (TIME, Aug. 16). Had she been kidnaped by the Reds? Or had she been rescued, as they insisted, from "White Russian bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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