Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things are more likely to make the U.S. citizen walk a mile with a smile than a chance to get a look at a real, live Russian: he gawks at them with the same delighted curiosity his grandfather turned on for Barnum & Bailey's wild man from Borneo...
Last autumn, members of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce were thrown into a state of delighted anticipation by news that 1) two Soviet aviators had flown a stolen Russian plane to Linz, Austria, and taken refuge with U.S. forces there, and 2) that each had voiced a desire to see, not Hollywood or the Statue of Liberty, but the Commonwealth of Virginia. They had heard its glories sung on a Voice of America broadcast beamed to the U.S.S.R...
Excitedly aware that such prime specimens would attract more publicity than Gargantua and His Mate, Virginia go-getters set out to bag them. Last week, after negotiations with the State Department and the armed forces, Virginia was rewarded. The Russian airmen, blond, 32-year-old Anatoly Barsov, and black-haired, 29-year-old Piotr Pirogov, were delivered to the U.S. for a grand tour of the Old Dominion...
...another scene, a group of Russian officers invite their French fellow prisoners to the gala opening of a package they have just received from the Czarina. When the package is found to contain books instead of vodka and caviar, the Russians simply set fire...
This does not, of course, mean that Russian-American meetings would be worthless, or that important agreements could not come out of them. But such meetings cannot take place until the Russians quit stalling and playing politics with the world's desperate desire for an international settlement. All the evidence concerning the recent Stalin affair shows that the Russians are not ready for serious conferences at this time. Stalin's statement was purely for publicity purposes, and it's surprising that so many Americans fall...