Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he was fighting for into his "three principles": Min Tsu (national unity), Min Chuan (political democracy) and Min Sheng (people's livelihood). By 1923, Sun Yat-sen accepted Soviet Russia as an ally because Communist Russia had renounced all the old imperial claims to special "rights" in Manchuria and North China. (Nevertheless, Sun Yat-sen explicitly rejected Marxism for China.) The Russians sent bright young Comintern legmen like Michael Borodin to "cooperate" with Sun Yat-sen at Canton while organizing the Communist Party of China at the same time...
...himself. llya, charged the Yugoslav Writers' Union in a classic piece of Marxist doubletalk, had himself been wavering from the party line on art. In one of Ilya's recent articles, he had expressed certain "esthetic sympathies" and had supported ideas "with which leading Soviet critics and also our own do not agree...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dismissed the Soviet constitution as merely "of pure propaganda significance," got a lofty consider-the-source retort from Izvestia: "Can a fly eclipse...
Russian scientists, like Russian artists, must toe the party line. Soviet biologists who disagree with the scientifically naive theories of T. D. Lysenko, Communism's pet geneticist, run the risk of being "disciplined." The penalty for arguing is demotion, imprisonment or worse (TIME, Sept. 6). Economists and statisticians who have deviated from the official line have also suffered. But until recently, Russian physicists were left alone. The Soviet Union, struggling desperately to make an atomic bomb, needed all its physicists...
...Gazette called on true-red Soviet physicists to "rescue the quantum theory from the mire into which physicists and idealists of all shades and colors have driven it." The "latest gigantic achievements of physics in the domain of liberating atomic energy and the study of cosmic rays," trumpeted the Gazette, "have been made not because of, but in spite of current theory...