Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slanders and fabrications," and countercharged conspiracy "to impair the prestige of the [Yugoslav] Communist Party." Fifteen thousand of them sent off a telegram to Comrade Stalin asking him to remove the "false accusations." The telegram was tied with baby-blue ribbons: "Long live our teacher of love toward the Soviet Union, Comrade Tito, and long live our big friend, Stalin...
Commencement time had come & gone again. To schoolchildren the world over it meant once more a time of haunting fears and vaunting dreams, a time when anything seemed possible. What did some of them hope for? In Soviet Russia the magazine Ogonek (The Little Light) polled a few of the 200,000 young folk ready to enter universities this year, reported their notions of what lies ahead...
...Ripinskaya is not quite so certain of herself. She hopes to be a schoolteacher and by 1953 "visualize myself starting literature lessons. The following spring my pupils pass their examinations." But blond, slant-eyed Vladimir Barkov has no doubts whatever concerning the year 1963. By then, believes Vladimir, triumphant Soviet science will have perfected atomic control and powered a voyage to the moon. Out of thousands of applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries and see how happy were my years...
Stubborn, jut-jawed Veniamin Veis, whose father works in a Soviet fishery, is no scientist, but he too dreams big dreams for himself and Russia. "I want to give all my strength to the victory of Communism," writes Veniamin. "Consequently I want to become a diplomat. I can imagine myself defending the interests of the Soviet Union. I want to be like Molotov. But to become a diplomat of the Molotov type, one must study...
Died. Leonid Konstantinovich Ramzin, 61, Soviet engineer, chief defendant in the notorious 1930 Industrial Party trial; after long illness; in Moscow. Tried before Andrei Vishinsky, Ramzin dutifully "confessed" that, together with Winston Churchill, ex-French Premiers Poincaré and Briand, he and his fellow "wreckers" were planning a military attack on the U.S.S.R. After his death sentence had been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, Ramzin's inventions won him freedom (1932), the Order of Lenin and the 150,000-ruble Stalin Prize...