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Word: soviet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With only the flimsiest pretense of democratic procedure, the Communists set up a "people's government" of Berlin. They repudiated the anti-Communist City Assembly, legally elected two years ago, and claimed authority over the whole city, although well aware that they would exercise it in the Soviet sector alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Opera Government | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

White Cards. The Soviet action had been forced by circumstances. As provided by the Berlin constitution agreed on by the four powers after the war, new city elections were due to be held last Sunday. The Communists had taken a sore beating in the last elections (1946), winning only 20% of the popular vote and placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Opera Government | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...some areas of the world, laughter is dangerous. Several Germans were recently arrested in the Soviet zone of Germany after movie theater audiences had guffawed at (1) a film purporting to show Soviet ships unloading food for Germany; (2) newsreel pictures of barrel-bellied Wilhelm Pieck, German Communist boss, who reminds many of his compatriots of the late Hermann Goring. But whether laughter was the privilege of the free or the furtive solace of the oppressed, it continued as always to lighten man's burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Around London's Fleet Street last week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...last in a series of three lectures on "The Spirit of Soviet Law" will be given by Professor Harold J. Berman in New Lecture Hall at 8 p.m. tonight. The meeting is being sponsored by the Law School Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berman's Third Speech on Soviet Law This Evening | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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