Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head held high, Judy went to the witness box to tell what a terrible mistake the Government had made in thinking that she, a trusted employee in the Justice Department, meant to give a purseful of secret data to Soviet U.N. Employee Valentin Gubichev...
...crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...Singer Paul Robeson, it was a busy week. Stepping off a plane in New York after a four-month tour of eight European countries, including a visit to the U.S.S.R., the burly baritone orated: "In Eastern democracies [i.e., the Soviet satellites] the people are happy and singing and are trying to build for peace-while I have to be met by a police squad*... an interesting welcome." As for Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found...
That evening, Traveler Robeson spoke before a rally sponsored by the Council on African Affairs. He sang five songs, and spoke for 90 minutes. Sample: "Yes, I love this Soviet people more than I love any other nation, because of their suffering and sacrifices for us, the Negro people, the people of the future in this world...
...ours. I want to love it. I love a part of it. But it's up to the rest of America when I shall love it with the same intensity that I love . . . suffering people the world over, in the way that I deeply and intensely love the Soviet people. That burden of proof rests upon America...