Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East. Red countermeasures had already begun. The day before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...
Meantime the snapping at Allied flanks in the city went on unceasingly. When a Soviet fighter plane dived into a British transport (15 died, including the fighter pilot), the Russians had apologized in jigtime, then as quickly reversed themselves. Wrote Red Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky in an outstandingly insulting note: attempts to blame the Russian pilot for the crash "can be interpreted by me only as defamation apparently following provocative aims." Robertson's reply was surprisingly mild; he asked for a joint investigation...
...years, Bostonians had come to boast of their Russian-born conductor as their grandparents once boasted of Emerson or Dr. Holmes. He was a welcome autocrat at any Brahmin table, and when his concerts were over, Boston dowagers liked to flock backstage to kiss and be kissed on both cheeks...
...Nazis moved into their home, banded their arms with the yellow Star of David, sent Ervin's father to the Russian front as a gravedigger for the army. For months, Ervin and his mother lived in a dingy, heatless flat, hidden out by the music loving Swedish Ambassador...
...Tagesspiegel is not Berlin's biggest daily (the Russian-licensed Tägliche Rundschau sells 800,000 copies, the British-licensed Telegraf 600,000), but it is the best-balanced. It is not pre-censored, follows no party line. Thus, it has readers in all zones. Written in prosy, pedantic German, it runs unemotional editorials that occasionally criticize vacillating U.S. policy. Reger's own articles, like himself, are stolid, learned and long-winded. His chief troubles are those of all the German press: newsprint shortage (most of it comes from the Russian zone), and newsmen who are untainted...