Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian show, with its 15-foot statue of Stalin-a bunch of fresh red roses at his feet-was only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp...
...Russians are born slaves], what impelled the Russian peasants to cast their votes for democratic parties whenever elections were held in Russia? . . . The half-illiterate kolkhoz peasant, loathing Red serfdom, has a clearer notion of democracy than . . . Henry Wallace...
...Communist Party the U.S. owed nothing because the only payment the Communists wanted was the weakness and eventual destruction of the U.S. To the Russian people, however, the U.S. would always owe far more than the courtesy of a distinction Eaton failed to make-the distinction between tyrants and their slaves...
Along the narrow back roads of western British Columbia's Kootenay country marched sullen bands. Sometimes they halted, clustered together, chanted Russian hymns. They were Doukhobors of the Sons of Freedom sect. Wherever they went, residents braced themselves for trouble. The Sons of Freedom were on a house-burning rampage...
...Dissenters who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-18th Century, held that because God dictated every man's actions, civil and religious authorities were needless. After they arrived in Canada in 1899, only the most radical among them refused to submit to Canadian civil laws. Sons of Freedom now number about 1,000 among British Columbia's 15,000 Doukhobors...