Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian workers last week continued to rejoice over what they could buy with their new rubles, the New York Times's careful Will Lissner cut through the mishmash of economic terms, got down to a bedrock comparison. He drew up a comparative table showing what the Soviet and U.S. worker must give in working time in order to get the same quantities of food and other items. Samples...
...Roerich, who left Russia at the time of the Revolution, gets faint praise in the Soviet Encyclopedia (1944), though many Roerich paintings still hang in Russian museums. Says the Encyclopedia: "His art is very decorative. His subject matter is taken out of legends, and he treats it in a religio-mystical reactionary style...
...famed boys' choir of the Dresden Kreuzkirche in the Russian zone was scheduled to sing songs of all nations. Although all four occupying powers had approved the choir's appearance, a German employee of the American Information Control Division, on his own authority, notified the Russians that the choir would have to be banned. The choir's conductor, he said, had not yet been de-Nazified...
...kids still played. For them, Christmas would be little changed. There would be other parties. In the French sector there would be a party for French children, and a party in the British sector for the British kids, and one for American kids in the American sector, and for Russian youngsters in the Russian sector. This was Christmas in Berlin...
...such as Lissner's would not prove that capitalism was a better system than Soviet socialism. They did prove, however, that 30 years after the Revolution, Russia was still giving its workers less than 10% of what an "exploited" worker under capitalism got for his labor. If the Russian worker got ten times as much instead of a tenth as much, he might-just possibly-consider that living in a police state was worth the price...