Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter's Heir. How, Lippmann wondered, could the Administration ever have developed such "an unworkable policy?" He believed it was "because Mr. X has neglected even to mention the fact that the Soviet Union is the successor of the Russian Empire and that Stalin is not only the heir of Marx and Lenin but of Peter the Great and the Czars of all the Russias...
...fact that the men in the Kremlin believe in the ideology of Marxism is, to Lippmann, simply a corollary to the fact that they are rulers of the Russian empire...
...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
Political Crisis. There was the chain reaction of political crisis. There was scarcely a political area on the map of Europe or Asia that was unthreatened within or without. In Korea, U.S.-Russian negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
...there was no Byzantine Empire to secure the southeast. Now the weak bastion of Greece and Turkey blocked the Communist road to the Middle East. In the Far East, an unsupported and economically battered China blocked the Russian advance. Some thought that Secretary of State Marshall had made a mistake in writing off China and that the U.S. position would be greatly strengthened if he frankly admitted it and promptly bolstered this traditional Asiatic flank of U.S. foreign policy...