Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film's plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
...Herrick, of the Voice of America, was fighting a furious electronic battle last week for Russia's radio audience. His weapons were powerful transmitters spotted through the northern hemisphere. His projectiles were radio waves. Herrick chalked up a victory whenever the Voice's broadcasts broke through Soviet jamming to reach Russian ears...
...Soviet transmitters began jamming the Voice's Russian-language programs in February 1948. They were not too successful then, but last month a mighty barrage of jamming broke out. It practically obliterated the Russian-language programs of both the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp. Directional receivers proved that the Russians had put 150 transmitters...
After the first few days of defeat, the Voice and BBC rallied. They called up reinforcements (more transmitters) and settled down to a long, subtle contest. Soviet jamming proved that Voice programs were being heard by the Russian people and were feared by the Kremlin. Now all the Voice's Russian-language programs carry a punch line: "Obviously somebody considers it dangerous to permit the Soviet people to listen to truthful information from a free radio...
Strategic Error. The Voice's opportunity was originally of Russian making. To reach its own people over vast Russian distances, the Soviet government built many short-wave (6,000 to 21,000-kilo-cycle) transmitters and distributed about 5,000,000 short-wave receivers to listeners. This proved a strategic mistake. Under good conditions, short-wave listeners could also hear programs from as far away as the U.S. and Manila...