Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
...Himmler." Other Germans were important to the Russian plans. One was Kurt Fischer, appointed head of the department of the interior of the central administrative agency of the Soviet zone last July. In his 503, Fischer seems to most Germans to have the appearance of a typical Biedermann (Babbitt): neatly dressed, round-faced, with greying, slightly wavy hair. But Fischer was a veteran of the Communist Spartacist League, which ruled Berlin for ten days...
...slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
...dutch because there had been a drop in membership in his area, and the secretary of another group, in Barnaul, Siberia, had just had his knuckles rapped for organizing a bourgeois kissing game of postoffice one evening. On the whole, however, the jubilee tone was one of Soviet satisfaction. Moscow announced that the Komsomol (for youths 15 to 25) now numbered 9,000,000 members...
...Only in the Soviet Socialist state," said a learned Moscow professor recently, "is marriage for love possible. Bourgeois marriages are mere business matches wherein love gets dirty and trampled...