Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, back in 1924, lean, leggy Hertta Kuusinen was a nubile 20-year-old much exposed to the twin influences of love and the Soviet state. Her father, Finnish-born Otto Kuusinen (now Vice President of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Soviet), was an agile ideologist whose fancy footwork had kept him Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was stocky, heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow...
...Soviet government has pampered the Art Theater and showered its members with honors. The troupe seemed immune to the ideological purges that have swept the arts & sciences in the U.S.S.R. In January 1946, when all theater workers were called in for a dressing down, the Art Theater did not even send a delegate...
...soon afterward, the critics lambasted the institution for presenting such a bourgeois item as Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Then came an official bawling out. Today the repertory is stocked with ten plays by Soviet dramatists...
Sabotage of ERP by the USSR is still a "genuine threat," but Mr. Harris maintains that Russian opposition to the recovery program has boomeranged. The aggressive tactics of the Soviet Union have stimulated military and foreign aid expenditures in the United States. The danger of a depression in the U.S. has been postponed by these expenditures, he stated...
...absence of serious U.S. intervention, the Chinese Communists would take over in China. Having done so, they would sieze all land from the landlords and the well-to-do farmers for redistribution, Aside from the fact that this would mean a massacre of three times the enormity of the Soviet "Khulak" liquidation, it would also mean agricultural collectivism, without which land-redistribution would be meaningless since "khulaks" would forever rise above the others and stifle them economically. As Russia's experience in the field of collectivization would be too valuable to be ignored, the Chinese Communists, regardless how different their...