Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite all: a thousand yards up the road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...
Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
...free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge: "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed . . . Why do you make such a valuable effort at the expense of your nervous system...
Moscow's Pravda did some boasting last week in honor of Press Day, marking its 36th birthday. In 30 years, said Pravda, the Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
Kabalevsky: The Comedians (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). More of the bright, noisy foolishness that has already made Kabalevsky's fellow Russian Khachaturian a U.S. jukebox favorite. Performance: good...