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Word: soviet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians, at any rate, would not stand for anyone lighting any verbal fires on their navels. The Soviet Union did not send delegates to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: How Not to Throw Banana Peels | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...world's youth, it seemed in Warsaw, had many problems-peace, better working conditions, more and better jobs, more education, abolition of child labor. But in Warsaw all the answers were clear, and dictated. A young Polish delegate put in a resolution which flatly declared that in the Soviet Union and in the popular (i.e., Soviet satellite) democracies "all the problems of youth have been solved." The Federation's suave French Communist President Guy de Boisson suggested the resolution be modified to say they were "on the road to solution." Snaoped Soviet Delegate Alexei Klimov: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: You're a Mother? | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...true the [Yugoslav] government decided that [lesser officials] did not have the right to give important information to anyone . . . All our clerks . . . gave various people state economic secrets which could and sometimes did fall into the hands of our common enemies . . . To obtain such information, Soviet people should go higher, that is to the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Yugoslav government . . . From all this it can be seen that the above reasons are not the real cause for the measure now taken by the Soviet government and it is our desire that the U.S.S.R. openly inform us what the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...military advisers were sent to Yugoslavia upon your request . . . Later, however, Yugoslav officials . . . announced it would be possible to reduce the number [of advisers] by 60%. Various reasons were given: some said the Soviet advisers were too expensive; others said it was not necessary for the Yugoslav army to benefit from the experience of the Soviet army . . . Yugoslav military leaders started to insult Soviet military advisers . . . [Furthermore] Yugoslav security forces were controlling and supervising Soviet representatives . . , We have come upon similar practices in bourgeois states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...express a desire to be informed of other facts which create dissatisfaction in the U.S.S.R . . . Leading comrades in Yugoslavia are saying things like "The [Soviet] All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) is degenerate," and "the Cominform is a means of controlling other parties by the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)." These anti-Soviet phrases are usually covered up by leftist phrases such as "Socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary" . . . It would be pertinent to mention that Trotsky . . . also started accusing the [Soviet] Communist Party of being degenerate . .. behind the leftist phrase of world revolution. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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