Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view. Molotov had come to make propaganda, mostly addressed to the Germans. The climax came on the 16th day at the table. Molotov started off with his usual sputter of accusations against the West. Said George Marshall: "Perversion and deliberate misconstruction. . . ." Then he again demanded a clear statement of Soviet policy. Said Molotov: ". . . When the time comes. . . ." Said Marshall: ". . . The time has come...
Molotov blandly played the same propaganda record over again. Cried Ernie Bevin: ". . . The same untrue statements are repeated as if we had never answered them." Said Marshall: "... A pure propaganda statement. [Mr. Molotov] makes it rather difficult to inspire respect for the dignity of the Soviet Government." Molotov tautened, stared straight at the blue table. "He looked," said one observer, "a little stiller...
Molotov: "The main attack is now being launched against reparations on deliveries from so-called current production. . . . There are no current reparations deliveries from the Western zones while the level of industry in the Anglo-American zone reaches only to 35% of the 1938 level. From the Soviet zone of Germany, current reparations deliveries are taking place and the level of industry there has already reached 52% of the 1938 level . . . although conditions there for the rehabilitation of industry are more difficult. ... It follows that reparations deliveries, far from hindering the rehabilitation of industry, facilitate this rehabilitation...
Ostensibly, the Communists were honoring the Congress of the National Italian Partisans Association and a distinguished guest, General Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm...
...average peasant is probably thinking that "the masses will eat tomorrow," as the result of this week's Soviet deflation program, Capa observed. "All he cares about is his bread and cabbage and how the end of rationing will mean a great deal more...