Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With radio ruffles and press flourishes the Soviet propaganda machine last week made the grandiloquent most of a Soviet decision to halve the reparations balances owed the Soviet Union by Rumania and Hungary. Moscow papers coupled the announcement with further furious attacks on the European Recovery Program, suggested that Moscow might soon devise an ERP of her own for "friendly neighbors...
Actually the reparations cuts were more nearly a political gesture than an act of generosity. Originally reparations to be paid by each country had been fixed at $300,000,000. In goods, services and occupation costs, the Soviet Union had already taken over three times that amount from Rumania. In Hungary, through seizure of so-called German assets and a system of joint Hungarian-Soviet companies, the Soviet control of Hungary"? economy had become so complete that further reparations payments would, in effect, mean that the Soviet Union was exacting war damages from itself...
...commission of professors-headed by a Frenchman, an Englishman, an American, and a Russian-had finally agreed on a new Outline of History suitable for young German minds. They had carefully ironed out Nazi distortions-and had added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted to say a good deal about "The Shady Aspects of Celibacy" when discussing the Renaissance church. The other powers said no; but they agreed to let him have a chapter on "The Class Struggle on the Eve of the Reformation...
...Unbalanced Structure of Capitalism." Protested the Englishman: "Then I think it's hardly worth putting Jefferson in at all ... in this one-sided view of history." The Russian's feelings were hurt; 83% of the men to be studied, he said, "represent theories thoroughly unacceptable to the Soviet Union." But he finally backed down and settled for a big section on "Countries with a New Democracy...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...