Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having been allowed to tour remote Siberia for two weeks, the New York Times's Moscow Correspondent Max Frankel, 29, wrote so straightaway a report, drawing sympathetic parallels between the winning of the Soviet East and the American West, that the Communist newspaper Izvestia reprinted his first article complete...
...last of his five dispatches last week, Reporter Frankel managed to send through Moscow's censors a far soberer picture-a picture of an old Soviet propagandists' paradise, the rarely visited Jewish Autonomous Province of Birobidzhan on the northern border of Manchuria. Founded with great fanfare in 1934 as "an empty plot on which the Soviet Jews were to pioneer without getting mixed up with Zionism," Birobidzhan is today, as Frankel describes it, a sad little whistle stop on the Trans-Siberian Railroad that "jet planes, hope, energy and momentum pass...
Faded Star. Its Jewishness has been systematically squelched. There has been no significant influx of the Soviet Union's 2,500,000 Jews since World War II. The total population of an area twice the size of New Jersey is barely 160,000, "half Jewish, two-thirds urban." Young Jews leave to seek better opportunities elsewhere; Frankel met one in the train who spoke with "contempt" of the city of Birobidzhan (pop. 60,000) as "a city of three streets...
...People are dressed, as elsewhere in the Soviet Union, darkly, adequately. In Birobidzhan locally produced shoes and accessories are perhaps a bit more stylish. The Trans-Siberian stops for ten minutes four times a day in each direction, and as the traveler waits for the train at the little station, a local culture official asks whether there are vegetables to be had in America...
...even official Chinese sources give a consistent birthdate, though he is probably 61. Mao and Liu attended the same normal school in industrial Changsha, early became Communists. By 1919 Liu had joined the staff of a Red newspaper edited by Mao Tse-tung, and been sent to the Soviet Union to study at Moscow's Far Eastern University...