Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna Louise Strong really deserved the Pulitzer Prize. Four days later, the Kremlin made a curt announcement: "The notorious agent and American journalist, A. L. Strong . . . was arrested by organs of the state security on Feb. 14. Miss Strong is incriminated in espionage and subversive activities against the Soviet Union...
...Their Entire Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told...
Most prisoners slept in their clothes on bare boards, 100 to a room-it took Margolin 18 months to get a mattress. They worked nine days out of ten; no Soviet holidays were observed. The only pay was food, and even "100% execution of the work norm was not enough to receive sufficient food." To cover up what was going on, camp commanders in Camp Kotlas received orders in 1945 to list no more deaths caused by malnutrition...
...stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, American League for Peace & Democracy, American Youth for Democracy (see EDUCATION), Civil Rights Congress, Council for Pan-American Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, National Committee to Win the Peace, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties...