Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best of a bad spot, the Soviet Government played on the people...
Russian shortages explained Molotov's relentless insistence, at the Foreign Ministers' Conference, on huge reparations from German current production. But the reparations demands ran counter to the main Soviet goal for 1947-to capture German allegiance. At the conference table Molotov catered to German nationalism by prating of German "unity." But what two Russian generals recently said about German unity in Berlin was far more interesting than Molotov's Moscow rhetoric. During a private meeting with German Communists, Lieut. Generals Makarov and Georgiefi declared...
...Budapest, a businessman whose factory is being run as a joint Soviet-Hungarian enterprise rallied from his end-of-an-era sorrow to observe, with a peculiarly Budapestian wistfulness: "He would have made a great partner...
...Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
...Russian Question was being built up like no other play in Soviet history. Months before the curtain rose, the Soviet press had decreed it a smash hit; it will be produced in more than 500 theaters; it will be made into a movie; and to all the millions of Russians who will see it, it is being advertised by the Soviet radio as the definitive answer to such questions as: "What does America want? What kind of a person is the average American...