Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet authorities were up in arms at the treachery of two young painters, E. Sazykin and Andreev, who had been commissioned to paint collective farm life in the town of Bondari. Instead, they were doing a brisk business painting icons and murals for the local Russian Orthodox church. On the ground that it was rank ingratitude to prefer "the dark corners of churches" to "the radiant creativeness" of Soviet life, the art committee expelled them...
...months ago Khrushchev himself told the Soviet people to shape up-discard their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia. Only one man in 30 can find a ready-made suit that will fit him. In a ladies' clothing store on Gorky Street an Izvestia reporter overheard a salesgirl telling a customer: "Your figure is nonstandard, and you won't find anything for yourself." The next 20 customers were likewise...
...Baltic coast at Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...
...black eagle, still later under Hitler's hooked cross. Dotted between vast estates of Junker aristocrats were thriving industrial and port cities until Allied bombs and the savage conflict between Nazi and Russian armies wiped them out, leaving half the homes and 60% of the factories gutted. Soviet plunderers took most of what was left-railroad rolling stock, machines and livestock. Under the Potsdam Agreement this barren area (the size of Virginia) went to Poland to compensate her for the Polish lands to the east grabbed by Russia. At Western insistence, Poland's authority was "provisional" until...
...living symbol of the insecurity that has haunted Poles for centuries is to be seen at Legnica, where thousands of Soviet troops are garrisoned. Yet, though unwillingly bound to Moscow, Poles find reason to think that even the West will acknowledge their claims. They noted happily that President Eisenhower, in his recent television broadcast on the Berlin crisis, used a map showing the western territories as part of Poland. They got a bigger lift last week from France's President de Gaulle. That stout friend of Konrad Adenauer insisted that enmity between Germans and French no longer exists...