Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday at Charlottenburg, in the British sector, a crowd of 2,000, some of them young toughs between eight and 16 who had no connection with the union, stormed up the station's sandy slope to capture a train bringing Communists from the Soviet sector to occupy stations down the line. A striker leaped into the engineer's cab, slammed on the brake. As the train bumped to a halt, Communist cops began shooting into the crowd. Four times the station changed hands; twelve were seriously wounded. Finally German police from the British sector took over. The Communist...
...Soviet officialdom decided to make it plain that good upright Communist bipeds would not be caught cavorting about on all fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
This week the Soviet Ministry of Health announced that Adventurer Antipin had been fired...
...Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where he had, it was admitted, made a stout anti-Soviet speech-TIME, Sept...
Crack the Whip. Foote has a good deal to say about Soviet spy-recruiting methods and the whip-cracking tactics of the Moscow chiefs. As valuable as the spies themselves, he says, are the party members and fellow travelers who pass on information, sometimes innocently, which the best of spies could never hope...