Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at Yalta, discussed Germany's future with their ally Stalin, Pieck was busy making speeches to German P.W.s in Russia, forming the nucleus of a future German Communist regime. When the Red Army moved into Berlin, Pieck was flown into the city by special Russian plane. He had work to do there...
Last week, after four years as the sly, tireless head of the Communist-run German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor...
Communist Fiat. This throbbing plea for German friendship was only the beginning; this week Stalin continued to woo Germany by announcing that German P.W.s (of whom an estimated 225,000 are still in Russian camps) would soon start going home. Then Moscow went through the diplomatic farce of "recognizing" its puppet regime and exchanging ministers with it. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson denounced the puppet republic as being "without legal validity or foundation in the popular will . . . created by Communist fiat...
When it became clear that Field helped only pro-Russian refugees, his superiors protested by cable. "Charity in present day Europe," answered Field, "cannot be neutral. Never have I had so clear a conscience . . . [and] such a harmonious feeling of concord between my convictions and my obligations to suffering mankind...
...Today Russian soldiers are no curiosity in the city of the Hapsburgs. Four power patrols drive through streets unmarked by zone borders. Only occasionally do you see a sign announcing: "You are now entering the American sector." But you never see an Austrian talking with Soviet soldier. The Russian troops are pariahs in a hostile culture, seldom even asked for streetcar fare by the conductor...