Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helping the eastern European countries achieve at lest a measure of freedom from Russia will weaken the Russian influence on communist groups outside the Soviet sphere. De-Russianizing Western European communists, in particular, will greatly reduce their threat to our hegemony of Western Europe...
...effect, trying to push our boundaries into the present Soviet sphere of influence. Russia is presumably reluctant to see this happen, and therefore we can expect a far warmer cold war in the Balkans. The trouble with warm cold wars is that they eventually become plain hot wars...
...certainly have good evidence of a Soviet atomic explosion," Professor Schwinger said. "But," he added, "it's one thing for the Russians to create an explosion at a certain place, and it's another thing indeed for the Russians to package an atomic bomb and explode it any time they want...
This week, in the first top-hat event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...