Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, where the Russians had staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet zone (TIME, May 23), they received a stinging slap in the face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted an overwhelming victory, obviously expecting the customary Red majority of 90-plus percent. The Russians resorted to their usual poll shenanigans; e.g., they counted as "yes" votes all write-in ballots with remarks like "No more concentration camps!" and "Liberty!" Nevertheless, after mulling the returns over for two days, the Russians...
...election served clear notice that the Communists could not within the foreseeable future hope to win power anywhere in Germany, except by force. It also indicated that the Soviet propaganda line-that Moscow stands for peace and the West stands for war-had reached the point of sharply diminishing returns. Europe now saw that, after the West had raised its ramparts against Communist expansion, the threat of war had receded...
...Soviet-run German railway authorities thought they knew what to do about that; they ordered strikebreakers into action. Armed trains bearing police reinforcements and carloads of young Communist shock troops began to pour into West Berlin elevated and railroad stations. The strikebreakers barricaded themselves inside a dozen Berlin stations...
...Back to Your Masters." Tempers on both sides turned ugly. Strikers, armed with crowbars and clubs, battled with the Red strikebreakers. At the Tempelhof station, Major General Pavel A. Kvashnin, Soviet transport chief, barely got away when strikers tried to rough him up amid cries of "Kill him! Hang the fat swine!" When strikers stormed the Schöneberg elevated station, Communist railway police inside unleashed four police dogs. When this did not stop the strikers, the police gave up and were escorted through the crowd, to shouts of "Go back to your Russian masters...
...downtown branch, Y.P.A. was indefinitely suspended on May 19, for 1) not submitting leaflets in advance; 2) not giving advance notice about an "open meeting," at which Miss Jessica Smith, editor of Soviet Russia Today, spoke; and 3) violating the rule prohibiting solicitations on campus...