Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could reach the only possible U.S. enemy. "It is pointless to talk in riddles," declared Air Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg with a blunt disregard for the diplomatic niceties. "The only military threat to the security of the United States and the peace of the world comes from the Soviet Union...
...rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against any enemy, no matter who he might...
After four years of Soviet captivity, shabby, 61-year-old Erika Raeder, wife of Nazi Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (now serving a life term for war crimes), turned up in Berlin and unburdened herself to newsmen. The enigmatic Russians had fed her caviar in Moscow, starved her in Minsk, kept her peeling potatoes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Then, just as unaccountably, they...
...basic loyalties. Should he follow the Moscow-approved genetics line of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms)? Or should he follow the Morgan-Mendelian theory (that the genes in the reproductive cells control heredity), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., but formally denounced by Soviet officialdom as unscientific and un-Marxist...
Week by week the Soviet satellite states are giving their Roman Catholic priests and nuns fresh insight into the problems of the early Christians...