Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient firmness-and on his 90-minute, closed-doors talk with Joseph Stalin a fortnight ago. Reported Marshall: "He thought that compromises were possible on all the main questions, including demilitarization, political structure of Germany, reparations, and economic unity. . . . I sincerely hope . . . that it implies greater cooperation by the Soviet delegation in future conferences...
...Communist Party, there is no question of world revolution, but of feeding and democratizing the people. We plan no Soviet here. We want the big feudal land holdings redistributed, but we respect all properties below 100 hectares [247 acres]. And that is a good-sized piece of property. We want industry. . . . We want to put the idle to work. Capital will find all the guarantee it needs...
...most famed, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. And it was the first production of it in Moscow in twelve years: it was too expensive, too big and too lavish to produce often, particularly during wartime austerity. But when the Bolshoi Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
What hit Siberia was probably a wandering meteorite, rather than a "minor planet" belonging to the sun's very orderly family. If it had fallen anywhere else, the world's astronomers would have pounced on it before the crater was cold. They could only hope that Soviet scientists were making accurate, if tardy observations...
...Agreement was made impossible at Moscow because, in our view, the Soviet Union insisted upon proposals which would have established in Germany a centralized Government adapted to the seizure of absolute control a country which would be boomed economically through inadequate are and excessive population and would be mortgaged to turn over a large part of its production as reparation, principally to the Soviet Union...