Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...address an open-air throng of 15,000 in front of the Brussels bourse, about 150 Red hecklers scattered through the crowd tried to drown him out with shouted insults, catcalls, whistles. Leaflets were circulated declaring that "Belgian workers would never take arms against their brothers in the Soviet Union and the people's democracies." The Brussels police, anticipating disturbance and well prepared for it, hustled off the troublemakers without difficulty. Churchill placidly smiled through the tumult with a cigar in one hand, a bunch of tulips in the other...
When it came his turn to speak, Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak told the comrades off. The Red hecklers, he said, were typical of the small pro-Soviet minority in Europe who, blindly obedient to a "foreign power," always tried to drown out the voice of the majority. The crowd roared approval...
...Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
...common efforts of the freedom-loving French do not succeed in bringing our country back into the camp of democracy and peace, if later our country should be dragged against its will into a war against the Soviet Union, and if the Soviet army, defending the cause of freedom and socialism, should be brought to pursue the aggressors onto our soil, could the workers and people of France have any other attitude toward the Soviet army than has been that of the peoples of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
Weasel words had burrowed into the syntax of this passage, but the implication was clear. A further statement from the Central Committee made it clearer: "The people of France place themselves resolutely, and in all circumstances, in the camp of the Soviet Union and her heroic army...