Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that I really don't understand!]." Throughout the Soviet zone, her phrase appears morning after morning scribbled below some grandiose Communist poster...
RIAS consistently stays on top of the news. By monitoring Soviet stations 24 hours a day, RIAS picked up the first flash of Jan Masaryk's plunge from a Prague window. That night, Heimlich's staff rounded up politicians and union leaders to join in a Masaryk memorial. Communists, uncertain of the party line, refused to appear, so RIAS broadcast a few moments of silence, explained that the time was reserved for the Reds...
...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...
About 1930, on an impulse, he persuaded suspicious Soviet bureaucrats to part with six of the best canvases in the magnificent Hermitage collection in Leningrad (including Rubens' Portrait of Hellena Fourment, Rembrandt's Athena and Flemish Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation), thus opening the way for bids from more timid collectors and dealers...
...suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...