Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a minuscule air force in occupied Europe: 75 P-51 fighters and ten B-29 Superfortresses, all of World War II vintage. In all of Europe, the U.S., Great Britain and France together could put no more than 300 combat aircraft in the air. "Suspicion estimates" place the Russian air force along the Western border at better than 4,000 planes...
Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky is a courteous man who likes Jane Austen's novels and earthy Russian proverbs. His favorite version of his favorite proverb before he walked out of the Allied Control Council meetings was: "I want to skin this bear before I shoot it." The bear is Berlin's city symbol. By this week, the Berlin bear looked pretty well skinned-and 3½ million Berliners wondered how close the Marshal's well-manicured finger was to the trigger...
...grimmest Russian pressure is not directly on the Allies, but on Berlin's people. One night this week, slim, dark Fritz Müller, 27, left Berlin for good. From scrap & rubble, he had built up a little clothing shop. Business was a hopeless tangle-he couldn't get thread or needles from the Western sectors, his delivery boys were detained for days at a time by Russian patrols. Last week, because he was "politically unreliable," Fritz's shop was confiscated. Oddly, it was confiscated by the same German official who ten years ago seized his furniture...
...fight continues. One day Sokolovsky proclaimed Berlin an integral part of the Soviet zone. On the same day, at an emergency session of the City Assembly, plucky Mayor Louise Schroeder introduced a resolution saying that Berlin belonged to all four occupation powers. Russian observers watched grimly as the resolution was overwhelmingly passed. Said Kurt Lansberg, a Christian Democratic history professor: "Anyone who leaves Berlin is a traitor...
...recent garden party given by Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, someone asked Hakimi what he thought would be the nature of the next Persian government. Hakimi thought he was being asked what kind of shoes he was wearing. "American," replied Hakimi to the amazement of his hosts, "yes, American...