Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Otto Yulevich Shmidt is a bearded Soviet academician, mathematician and Polar explorer. At the age of 56 he is also a man of remarkable longevity...
...Frankfurt Betrayal of German Unity," screamed one Russian zone paper. "A Black Day for Germany," said another. In Berlin, plans were laid for a meeting of the Soviet-controlled All German People...
...Russia there is little room for such ideologically unorthodox characters as Baba-Yaga. Since Lenin, writers of the new Soviet skazki have been instructed to fashion their fairy tales as "pictures of the Socialist way of life."* But Soviet writers cannot always follow Soviet Socialism. In Moscow last week Baba-Yaga might have chuckled a hearty witch's chuckle. Two of her Socialist successors-Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb-were being boiled...
Bread Crumb and Gunpowder Crumb were hero and villain of a new fairy tale written by Soviet Author Andrei Platonov for Pionerskaya Pravda, which aims to show the Socialist way to children under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter...
...Berlin, the American authorities refused to approve a Soviet version of Tom Sawyer for German schools. The reason was a preface which said: "Twain's scorn is directed primarily against the semi-education of parvenus and refined people who imitate the European way of life. . . . The whole mendacity of the capitalistic class, the hypocrisy and bigotry in the U.S. of his time are attacked without leniency or mercy." However, without U.S. sanction, 400,000 Berlin children go on using Soviet-proposed books because the U.S. has not supplied any schoolbooks...