Word: russias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Office wastebaskets in Eastern Europe overflowed last week; Communists were tearing up treaties. Stalin began by formally denouncing Russia's treaty of mutual assistance with Tito's Yugoslavia. Sensing the Kremlin's Tito-indigestion, Russia's satellites dutifully burped: one by one they denounced the treaties with Yugoslavia which had been fanfared to the world...
...Russia annulled her treaty with Yugoslavia on the ground that the confessions of Laszlo Rajk, onetime Communist Hungarian Foreign Minister, in the Budapest show trial, had proved the existence of a Tito-U.S. conspiracy against Russia...
Tito in his reply to Moscow complained of Russia's "demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
...dessert, there was Palmiro Togliatti, who appeared in person to make a fiery speech in which he dwelt smugly on Russia's possession of the atomic bomb. After the boss's speech, the carnival ended in a burst of fireworks, followed by glowing reports from the party treasury that the Florence carnival had boosted the total sum collected for the Communist press beyond 300 million lire (slightly less than half a million dollars...
Actually, they are worriers. They worry about racial equality, and when they go home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...