Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Social Democratic Party split into the Bolsheviks (majority) led by Lenin and the Mensheviks (minority). Often the Bolsheviks were the minority and the Mensheviks were the majority, but Russia is Russia, and Communists will be Communists...
Mighty Opposites. Last week these mighty opposites defined the issue at U.N. in a clash so dramatic that henceforth only the willfully unrealistic could fail to see it. The protagonists were Secretary of State George Marshall and the spokesman of the Russian delegation, Soviet Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky. The ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power...
...Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew. Certainly, more conflict lay immediately ahead at U.N. This week, the Assembly's steering committee voted (over strenuous Russian objection) to add George Marshall's new proposals to the working agenda...
...pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
Germans complained bitterly of the trainloads of building material being diverted to this enterprise in a country whose housing situation is critical. Some took pleasure in forecasting what they would do to the statue as soon as the Russian occupation was over. "We will blow it up. We will do a better job with that than the British did with our Tiergarten-Bunker...