Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Refreshment...
This was a bizarrely distorted montage of the facts. Hollywood handles trade unions with kid gloves, if at all, has scarcely mentioned Communism since the screamingly pro-Russian Mission to Moscow. Even more obviously false was Zhukov's statement that "the stink of race prejudice is smelled miles away. . . . While 100% Americans are always brave and noble heroes, Negroes are either imbeciles . . . or wild beasts inspiring the hatred of the audience. . . ." Actually, Hollywood (though it is inclined to show Negroes as rather simple) has not presented a violently villainous Negro since The Birth of a Nation...
Thus Chen Li-fu came under Chiang's protection in an all-important hsiao relationship. Chen went to Tientsin's Peiyang University (1919-23), diligently studied physics, mathematics, and the Chinese classics. Like many Chinese undergraduates then, he admired the Russian revolution, read Marx and Lenin...
...this period, Sun Yat-sen had welcomed Russian help for his revolution. Russia sent help-and organizers. One of the Kremlin's Far Eastern experts, with the romantic name of Michael Borodin (he had formerly been a Chicago dentist with the less romantic name of Mike Gruzenberg), brought Moscow organization charts, showed the Chinese Nationalists how to reorganize the Kuomintang on the pattern of the Communist Party in Russia, and even how to set up a party secret police. Sun Yat-sen's Communist helpers were all set to take over from within, while Chiang Kai-shek...
...leader. Marx falsely accused Weitling of being a literary crook and hounded him to the U.S. Another target was Ferdinand Lassalle, brilliant founder of the German Social Democratic Party. Marx somewhat inconsistently referred to Lassalle as "Baron Izzy" and "the little Jew." Another victim was Michael Bakunin, an ardent Russian anarchist who threatened Marx's, control of the First International (founded in 1864 in London). Marx charged Bakunin with shady financial dealings and with being a Czarist agent. He could not make the charge stick, but Bakunin withdrew to lick his wounds...