Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland, closest to the heat, two members of the Finnish-Russian treaty negotiation delegation hurried home for worried talks about Russian demands. By week's end, Finland's coalition government had not yet stomached a Russian demand that Finland admit Russian troops whenever Moscow decided that Finnish "independence" was threatened...
Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...soldiers would not permit the Russians to carry in food for the guards inside the building. Instead, a U.S. lieutenant colonel inspected Russian soup, bread, coffee and cigarettes, then permitted German policemen to carry in the food...
...Russian Novelist llya Ehrenburg, who a few years ago won a Stalin Prize (currently worth $18,862), won it all over again with The Storm, a novel about Russia's wartime heroism and the Allies' rapaciousness. Dramatist Konstantin Simonov, whose The Russian Question (about corrupt U.S. journalism) won him a Stalin Prize last year, got none this time-but prizes went to the men who made a movie of his play...
...with an amendment that news should be a propaganda weapon "for eradication of Fascism and Fascist ideology," a handy way of justifying the Kremlin-controlled press. Stooging for Russia, Polish Delegate Grosz, wanted U.S. newspapers condemned as "warmongers." The amendment was beaten 27 to 5, the five being the Russian bloc (Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia...