Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century, Richard Chancellor, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, sailed from England to Russia. He reported: "The Russian upper classes overeat and overdrink; but the poor is very innumerable, and live most miserably . . . nor the fish cannot be so stinking nor rotten, but they will...
Festerings in the Tanbark. While Hungarian art was thus being purified, the Communist citadel itself was polluted. Russian musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, drama critics, publishers, ice skaters and brass bands have already been purged. But the most awesome new menace to Soviet culture had festered in the tanbark of Russian circuses. It was known as "Western clownism...
...worst offenders were the Western clowns. The article specifically attacked the famed Fratellinis, "reactionary and bourgeois [clowns] and classical exponents of buffoon games." A Russian critic who recently praised them was severely taken to task for "not revealing the ideological character of Western clownism...
...Canada had shaped a pact that was almost ready for signatures. Of these nations, Norway is the only one which has a common border with Russia. Norway also sent a note to Russia frankly mentioning her participation in the Washington talks, and rejecting Moscow's demand for a Russian-Norwegian "nonaggression pact...
...West had scored. Moscow reacted with a thunderous press and radio barrage intended to intimidate all those who signed the pact, or who wanted to sign (e.g., Italy, who is being invited to join this week). In Norway's far north, where the 122½-mile Russian border is guarded on the Norwegian side by only a few ski patrols, there were rumors of Russian troop movements...