Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric stove and Mrs. Atkinson remembers in detail her daily forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts go, existed on meager official rations in cramped quarters that made the Metropole seem luxurious...
...typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public markets...
...will somehow dissolve U.S.-Soviet...
differences, that perhaps the Soviet Government can be induced to raise the Iron
...suggest a theme song for Soviet Russia...