Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is the reason for this striking contrast? The more I saw of Russia, the more I was convinced that it was because Russia's leaders put machines ahead of men, industrial recovery ahead of human recovery. Perhaps the clearest example of the coldblooded way the Kremlin handles Russian reconstruction is Stalingrad...
Where People Live. A Russian cannot move anywhere, say to Moscow, without the state's permission; if he is caught without a permit, he is sentenced to hard labor. He cannot even visit places like the Kremlin. I remember the Russian girl I met only once for a few minutes, during which we happened to walk past the Kremlin. Said she: "We Russians envy you foreigners. You can visit the Kremlin. We cannot...
...Russian people are docile. They do not complain about their rulers, far less threaten them. There is no sign of any major purges. I heard a great deal of genuine, voluntary admiration for Stalin, some for Molotov and Zhdanov. But I never heard any Russian volunteer a single word of praise for Lavrenti Beria, head of the omnipresent secret police. But then few people love policemen, and Russians have less reason to love them than most...
...estimates I heard about Russians kept in slave labor camps ranged from 3 to 15 million. Usually the state does not bother to hide slave laborers (Russian or foreign); they are seen working everywhere. Only in Moscow are there occasional attempts to hide ugly facts. Once I drove past notorious Lubyanka prison with an Intourist guide. I asked deliberately: "What is that large, impressive building over there?" "Oh," she replied, "people live there...
...Protected Books. What taught me, perhaps, most about the people's life in Russia was a library, not a prison-though the difference was hard to tell. It was the Lenin Library in Moscow. Russian propaganda calls it "the world's greatest library," and speaks proudly of its twelve million volumes. It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack...