Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plump, red-faced Wilhelm Kreikmeyer said expansively that he was proud that the railways could again link East & West and thus fulfill the people's demand for a united Germany. The implication was clear: Germans owed it all to Russian generosity and good will...
...blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After that, two more cops came in to look through the baggage...
...jolly German businessman, who did not seem to notice the other passengers' tension, kept telling endless stories about how he had outwitted the Reds. The scared blonde across the aisle tried to shush him, but he kept rambling on. "Why, you can bribe the Russians with cigarettes and schnapps any time. Why, let me tell you about one Russian officer -" His prattle was cut short by a jerk of the train. After more than an hour, we were moving again...
...Formerly known as Shertok, which in his Russian mother tongue sounds like "little devil." The new name he recently adopted means "servant" in Hebrew...
...seven Soviet intellectuals who journeyed to Manhattan last month for the Communist-inspired "peace conference" at the Waldorf-Astoria were safely home again. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Russian Movie Director Sergei Gerasimov unpacked some of his impressions of the trip...