Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union's best display of what it calls a "people's democracy" is the annual budget session of the Supreme Soviet. Deputies, elected on a one-party, one-candidate ballot, assemble to rubberstamp a budget. Last week in Moscow, the show was put on again...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...
...Russia, truth is what the Communist Party's Agitation and Propaganda section says it should be. In remote, snowclad Veshenskaya, Sholokhov was summoned to lend his powerful pen and his novelist's imagery to the clamor that is party truth in 1948. Sholokhov obliged. Last week, the Soviet radio carried his new message...
...witnessed a symbolic picture. I saw a half-filled grave, and by it lay a German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...
...Soviet officers were showing U.S. correspondents through Germany's Russian zone. Proudly they pointed out the war-battered Zwinger in Dresden. Plans were well under way, they boasted, for restoring the museum. But where were all the paintings listed in the catalogue...