Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note read in part: "I have not been able to (and don't think I will) get the top secret FBI report which I described to Michael on Soviet . . . intelligence archives . . . When I saw the report I breezed through it rapidly, remember very little. It was about 115 pages in length; summarized first Soviet 'intelligence' activities, including Martens, Lore, Poyntz, Altschuler, Silvermaster...
When the serious business was over, Moscow cavorted merrily in the brilliant sunshine, beside lakes of flowers and tremendous red-festooned portraits of Soviet leaders. And the music was grand...
...Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral outrage...
Black-Market Babies. The Soviet answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some U.S. women are so poor that they have to sell their children. Triumphantly he cited some news clippings that told of a black market in adopted babies...
Delegate Semen K. Tsarapkin read from the letter of a Soviet woman, the ex-wife of an Englishman, who complained: "Not only had I to cook meals for my husband, but I had to know the exact minute when he entered the house and at that time the hot dishes had to be ready on the table...