Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vyacheslav Molotov and his Russian colleagues lunched with George Marshall at the U.S. ambassador's residence in London. In the sitting room, a photographer asked them to gather round the fireplace. "Good," grinned Andrei Vishinsky, "that will be cozy...
...Hook." Molotov flatly rejected Marshall's demands that Russia stop taking reparations from current German production; he also refused any information on past Russian seizures in Germany. His tone was so aggressive that it seemed to leave no room for further talk. At a real conference, that would have been regretted. But in London last week, one U.S. delegation member sighed gratefully: "Molotov has taken us off the hook...
...meant that, had Molotov been seemingly conciliatory, the U.S. would have been forced to continue wading through the marsh of statistics, accusations and debaters' petty triumphs. Although Marshall and Bevin wanted German and Austrian treaties with the Russians, they knew as well as Molotov that the real purpose of the London meeting was not to confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians...
...Many U.S. businessmen have complained that they cannot make commercial contacts in Germany. There are no legal means whereby Anglo-Americans can buy anything larger than an automobile in Germany. The U.S.S.R., on the other hand, now owns one third of the industry in its zone through Russian-controlled corporations...
...ordinary Russian, however, the new price system has a bright counterpart. Wages were to remain the same in new rubles as in the old. But bread would be cheaper by 12%, cereals by ten, and most other foods remain unchanged from their previous lowest levels. Because citizens whose prices would be cut greatly outnumbered those with unbanked hoards, there was more jubilation than grief in Russia at the Zhdanov decree...