Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wire & Rope. One day last August, the party set out for Kashgar, an ancient trading post near the Soviet border. There were 16 travelers, including 50-year-old Paxton and his wife Vincoe, an ex-Army nurse; Vice Consul Robert Dreeson; two White Russian chauffeurs and their wives & children; a Turki interpreter and his sister; his wife and four-month-old baby...
...years, a favorite joke in the West was that the people of Moscow had a clean, sumptuous, artistically constructed subway, admirable in every respect except one: there were no trains. Unlike many other jokes about Soviet Russia, this one contained no grain of truth. The Moscow subway trains run, and they run well...
...devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
...occur just about the same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...
Even in kindergarten, the Soviet indoctrination of Magyar moppets is going on apace. The daily Magyar Nemzet reported an interview with one student of dialectical materialism, four-year-old Robert Rev. Robert quickly identified the portraits of Lenin, Stalin and Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi on the classroom walls. Said he: "They are discussing how to prevent war, and planning the construction of more factories, more kindergartens and more shops...