Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bird in a Cage." As soon as she was able to talk, Oksana Kosenkina knocked all the Soviet protests into a cocked...
...their first talks with Molotov and Stalin, the Western envoys had proposed: 1) immediate and unconditional lifting of the Berlin blockade; 2) recognition of Soviet money as exclusive currency in all of Berlin; 3) renewed discussions by the Council of Foreign Ministers on a peace treaty for Germany...
...Kremlin, rejecting this offer, made counterproposals: I) recognition of Soviet "paramount interest" in the administration of Berlin; 2) suspension of the provisional government set up by the Western Allies for Western Germany; 3) a Soviet voice in control of the Ruhr and withdrawal of all occupation forces as first steps toward a German treaty...
...Without respite, the Soviet offensive has been carried on. Berlin has two currencies, two food administrations, two trade unions, in effect two city treasuries. In the handling of anything from tax revenues to arrested criminals, Berlin is now two cities...
...police forces had been seizing vehicles from each other. Last week the Communist police chief sued to recover an automobile which, he said, the West Berlin police chief had wrongfully impounded. Germans noted the disappearance of several men who worked on the West Berlin force but lived in the Soviet sector. The Red cops raided black marketeers near the sector line, and when some of the fleeing Germans scrambled across it, the police followed. West Berlin police and Allied MPs appeared and ordered the invaders back; they complied, but the Red press screamed that the Western powers were "harboring" criminal...