Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace does not quite suit Moscow yet. Writing in the Kremlin mouthpiece, the New Times, high-ranking Soviet Writer V. M. Berezhkov noted some ideas of a "naive and Utopian character" in Wallace's book, Toward World Peace. Particularly naive, thought Berezhkov, is Wallace's idea that capitalism can be reformed and made "progressive." Berezhkov thought, however, that the forces behind Wallace would continue to play "a very essential role" in U.S. politics, even after the election...
...climax came when Social Democratic Leader Franz Neumann asked the crowd's approval to carry a memorandum to the Western powers documenting the tyranny and police methods of the Soviet. The hundreds of thousands of arms went up in approval as they cried "Freiheit!" in a mighty roar. Neumann rode on the crowd's shoulders as he tightly clasped the typewritten sheets of his memorandum in one arm and a bouquet of red roses in the other. Slowly the crowd began to melt back into the ruins from which it had come. Loudspeakers blared Wagner's Overture...
...said Fitzgerald with a grin. He added: "I don't know the first thing about Communism, I don't care what Stalin or Lenin said. I know nothing of the policies of the Soviet Union . . . I'm just a poor guy in the United States...
...been ousted from the U.E. presidency by the men behind Fitzgerald-Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and Organizing Director James Matles. He named them, along with Fitzgerald and the whole U.E. executive board, as men who "sacrifice the interests of the U.E. to promote the foreign policy of the Soviet Union...
...formation was revelatory-it said clearly that in the Soviet hierarchy Malenkov Was Zhdanov's replacement. Zhdanov's death raised Malenkov and Rumania's matriarchal but equally tough Ana Pauker to the top of the Cominform heap...