Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried their running debate on to a reception that Kozlov held for Nixon at the Soviet embassy. Kozlov suggested that the supermarket and shopping area he had visited was strictly a showcase for his benefit. Not so, said Nixon. Besides, he added, did not the Russians bring their prettiest girls to model at the New York exhibit? Kozlov admitted that Nixon had a point. Speaking of markets, the Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography...
When Kozlov was asked to comment on anti-Semitism in the U.S.S.R., Menshikov again could only smile weakly. Kozlov, who gained a reputation as an anti-Semite during the "doctors' plot," seemed offended. "I have many friends of Jewish nationality," said he. Among them: a Leningrad rabbi, various Soviet officials, the wife of "President Voroshilov who unfortunately died recently. God give it that the Jews should live such a life in any other country as in the Soviet Union. They live better in the Soviet Union than in Israel." Just then the pilot sent back word that too many...
...That was why free elections in the capitalist world are such a "farce."Though Konrad Adenauer had been elected Chancellor again and again, Khrushchev seemed to think that he was still the "most unpopular man in Germany." His successor would soon enough have to reckon with the power of Soviet missiles. At one point, Khrushchev indulged in a crude bit of humor that began, "Look at Adenauer in the nude, and you will understand Germany," and then went on from there...
...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...
...overenthusiasm, the U.N. still estimated that the increase in national product "seems to have been of the order of 50%." While the U.S. gross national product dropped nearly i%, according to the figures, China's national product had shot up five times as fast as that of the Soviet Union. "It is noteworthy," added the experts, "that the rate of output of crops was obtained without any appreciable increase in the sown area...