Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither under the Czars nor under the Commissars have the Russians had much experience at settling strikes. Last week the commandants of the three Western powers pitched in to help the Russians get an agreement. The strikers are demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds...
Mayor Reuter said the Western commandants would back a Russian promise that there would be no reprisals against returning strikers. Said Reuter: "The Western powers are not small children who don't keep their promises." An angry striker yelled back: "It's too late. We know the Russians. The Western powers will take care of us-after we've disappeared...
...spite of these fears and the continued Russian refusal to recognize the non-Communist union, the strike meeting agreed to submit the proposed settlement to a ballot...
McCloy, as coordinator of 20-odd lawyers, representing many clients, took part in the melodramatic hunt for evidence, which the German secret service tried desperately to cover up. One bizarre episode concerned a Czarist Russian adventurer, Count Alexander Nelidoff, who said he had documents linking the German government with the Black Tom saboteurs. McCloy plucked a pencil from Nelidoff's vest pocket to take some notes. The Russian gasped in horror, snatched the pencil back, explained that it was a tiny pistol loaded with gas pellets which could quickly asphyxiate everybody in the room. Later, checking with British Intelligence...
...first trip back to Moscow since the war, Paul Robeson (see U.S. AFFAIRS) was a howling success. "You know how I feel to be back on Soviet soil," he told a cheering audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...