Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive to wipe out opposition to the Stalinist regime. Persons accused of being "wreckers, Trotskyists, Rightists, diversionists, counterrevolutionaries, saboteurs" are in fact generally guilty of just-one common crime-deviation from the "party line." So changing, undefined is this line that almost every Russian writer or speaker on Soviet politics, art, literature, social studies, must have been guilty at one time or another of an utterance which could now condemn him as an "enemy of the people...
Last week Webb Miller, United Press's European manager, published a series of six "uncensored" articles whose material he gathered in Russia this summer. High point of the series was a story illustrating the vigilance Soviet writers must keep to stay in line...
Committee of the Soviet Union, was being chafed about his pet cat, of which he was inordinately fond. 'Well, I should love that cat,' Lapinsky said finally, grinning. 'The other day he scratched one of my manuscripts, and I found that he had saved me from a grievous deviation from the party line.' Lapinsky has disappeared now-no one knows where. Apparently his cat failed him at last...
Meantime, the purge continued. In Moscow, V. I. Liubchenko, president of the People's Commissars Council of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic-one of U. S. S. R.'s seven autonomous republics-was reported to have committed suicide, an announcement which reminded some cynical U. S. newsgatherers that many a third-degreed prisoner slips getting into the patrol wagon...
...Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema a legend on which to base this richly human drama of an old scholar-hero...