Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's response was amiable in tone, but he could not resist strumming away once again at his obsessive theme that the U.S.S.R. will soon catch up with the U.S. "In the people of the U.S.," he said, "the Soviet people have a match. But you do not recognize us as a match. The sooner you recognize this the better. We will be wealthy, too, and we will surpass you. We, too, are carrying ice on our backs...
...block wedge of Moscow real estate where Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev held their spectacular verbal fencing matches last week is a wonder of U.S. planning, talent and do-it-yourself ingenuity. Conceived four years ago, the American exhibition in Moscow was not finally approved by the Kremlin until last December, and the fact that it was ready to open on schedule marked some sort of speed record for major international expositions...
...side of the Communist agricultural paradise than by Red China's earlier insistence that it would reach Marxism's pearly gates ahead of Russia itself. In his bluntest assault yet on Mao Tse-tung's rural communes, Khrushchev recalled that soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, some Soviet leaders had also decided that the way to achieve true Communism was by herding the peasantry into communes. "Well, they organized communes," he said. "But neither the material nor political conditions for it-I mean the consciousness of the peasant masses-then existed. A situation arose in which everyone wanted...
...Culture and Science, Russia's tasteless contribution to the war-ragged Warsaw skyline, Khrushchev abruptly pulled the rug out from under the diehard Stalinists who oppose Gomulka in the name of Marxist purity. "These party members," said Khrushchev, "sometimes depict themselves as being the closest friends of the Soviet Union. But if one looks at these people realistically, it becomes clear that theirs is not a realistic, concrete, clear tendency...
...Khrushchev's next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia, things were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would...