Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of the world's wandering peoples, Armenians cherish the dream of home. In Manhattan, last week, 150 of the 150,000 Armenians in the U.S. found the tug of homesickness too strong to resist. They stepped aboard the trim, white Soviet steamship Rossia, sailed for the old country-now a part of the U.S.S.R...
Last week, in the first exhibition war crimes trial staged by the Russians in Germany, 16 of Sachsenhausen's top jailers were called to book for their crimes. In a courtroom in Berlin's Soviet sector, they were confronted by a file of witnesses, some weeping, some scowling with hatred, some icily vengeful. But in this trial, the Communist desire to win friends and influence Germans diluted the passion for swift justice that had led the Russians at Nürnberg to demand death penalties for all the accused...
...killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton Kaindl, more than made up for Willy's outburst. "I confess my heavy guilt," he told his judges, "and my sincere thanks go to the Soviet authorities for the procedure of this trial...
...summation, the Russian prosecutor reminded the court that the death penalty had been abolished in the Soviet Union (TIME, June 2). Next day the court passed sentence: life imprisonment for 14 of the murderers, 15 years' hard labor for the other two. An old Communist in the audience, who had not forgotten his year at Sachsenhausen, hissed: "They're making these swine out to be poor misguided people. I hope they send them all to the lead mines in Siberia...
...Soviet Military Governor Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky made his contribution to the occasion by taking "administrative measures" against a German newspaper that criticized the planned lavishness of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in the face of European hunger...