Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 24 hours after President Truman's announcement, the Russians maintained silence. Then Tass released a deadpan communiqué deploring the "alarm among broad social circles" which the Washington news had caused. Tass suggested that the West had, just possibly, been fooled. "In the Soviet Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic energy, added Tass casually, Vyacheslav Molotov had announced back in 1947, when...
...flat stretches of Flushing Meadows, fanned by autumn's first cool breezes, the red and yellow dahlias nodded cheerily. So did Andrei Vishinsky. "I," beamed the Soviet Foreign Minister on his arrival, "am optimistic by nature...
...will be written down in the history of mankind. It will say: the Chinese, forming one-quarter of humanity, have risen . . . We announce the establishment of the People's Republic of China . . . We must unite with all countries and peoples loving peace and freedom, first of all the Soviet Union . . . Let the reactionaries at home & abroad tremble...
China's new people's republic would be strictly Soviet style. According to the principle of "democratic centralism," party rule would be exerted downward through a tightly knit administration. The "people's" conference was not elected by anyone, but appointed by the Communist bosses. Neither Mao Tse-tung nor any of his comrades had a "mandate" from the people. Mao described the new regime as a "people's democratic dictatorship...
...spine-chilling; the New York Journal-American ran a half-page picture showing Manhattan engulfed in atomic "waves of death and havoc." Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads on the story overshadowed advice at the bottom of the page, which most of the press had taken: NO REASON FOR ATOM HYSTERIA...