Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were abuzz with ominous rumor and foreboding fact. U.S. newsmen in Belgrade reported three mechanized Soviet divisions moving westward through Hungary and Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship, covered by Soviet planes, steamed up & down...
...defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
...sunny afternoon last week, the Communists staged a rally of 2,000 strikers at Kemi. A sound-truck of the Finnish-Russian Friendship Society blared: "Come on, boys, let's go and throw out the cops!" The boys went at the police barricade, hurled insults, sticks & stones. The police first tossed a few tear-gas grenades, but when a fresh breeze dispersed the gas, they started shooting as the crowd kept on coming. Two workers were killed. Troops from a nearby garrison finally restored order. The riot's Communist ringleader was put in jail, where he promptly went...
...fact that Moscow frowns on modern art too (Pravda calls it "decayed, formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership than our bar associations? [For the bar] a candidate must pass the strict requirements of a character committee...
...some of the American states, or Nazi attacks on the 'Jewish' relativity theory, or the Kremlin's telling the astronomers what cosmogony is good for them and what is bad, the demoralization of the spirit is dangerous." Although he believes that nine-tenths of the Russian scientists are "aware of the social mistake," they can do nothing about it: "The Soviet version of the moment is the worst, because the affliction is nationwide. I wish I had some assurance the malady were transitory...We cannot condone the Soviet infringement," he concluded, but "perhaps in some...