Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin collections in the Russian zone had a very different fate...
...deathbed issue of Manhattan's Communist New Masses last January, twelve Russian Communist writers addressed an open letter to their colleagues in the U.S. The gist of it: Whose side are you on? Last week, in the resurrected and rebaptized Masses & Mainstream, 32 U.S. writers, painters and musicians published their answer. Its gist: We're on your side, comrades...
Then Sneath switched. He wrote to the London Daily Worker: "I am endeavoring to institute the compulsory study of Russian in this school, but have been met with every form of obstruction . . ." Somberly, the Worker published the letter as an example of growing anti-Soviet feeling. London's less credulous News Review checked up, found that there was no Selhurst School, never had been. H. Rochester Sneath turned out to be two Cambridge undergraduates who had invested $1.60 in letterheads to perpetrate the best hoax of the spring...
...last on Sunday afternoon I found the opportunity to answer your letter, because I had so many to do in the past fortnight that I couldn't write before . . . Were my letters opened by Russian censorship? This would interest me very much, because you write you know nothing about the Eastern areas of Europe, and it would be dangerous for me if I would write the only truth and my letters are opened by the Russians. Why, later...
Leipzig was garrisoned by the U. S. forces in the May '45, but in July '45 the Russians garrisoned our town and what happened then in Leipzig is typically for all areas which are occupied by the Russian. The beginning of all was to occupy all offices with men, who . . . were formed for their tasks in Russian political-schools. All men who were real democrats were out away, and if one of them said only one word against the men, who reigned now in a "real-democratically manner," he came into a concentration-camp. You may say this...