Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the October Revolution at least ten towns, one city and three rural regions have been named for Stalin. Molotov has been immortalized in the names of four Russian towns, one region, countless streets, and a square in Soviet-dominated Hungary. The cities of Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg), Kuibyshev (formerly Samara) and Kirovabad carry the names of four more Soviet faithfuls across the land...
...harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value, and there is no longer any "key." It is a wonderland where few fellow composers have yet dared to take up residence-although just about every nation but Soviet Russia (where it is officially discouraged) has its cells of hotly partisan twelve-toners...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
There has been and probably will continue to be substantial agreement among the leaders of both parties on the following prepositions: that no useful purpose will be served by reopening negotiations with Russia on the many issues that divide the world until it becomes clear that the Soviet Union is ready to take negotiations seriously and is willing to make concessions as well as to receive them; that the best--in fact, the only--way to bring this situation about is to convince the Soviet Union that the postwar expansion of world Communism and Russian influence has about...
Undoubtedly the smallness of the vote for Wallace gives powerful impetus to this policy. Before November second, there is some evidence that leaders in the Soviet Union and her satellites considered a large segment of the American people to be opposed to the Russian policy of this government. There is no reason for that illusion now. In my opinion, the magnitude of the Wallace defeat hastens the day when it may be possible to undertake serious negotiations with the Soviet Union since Soviet leaders must be by now convinced that the prospects for appeasement are definitely blighted...