Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost at once China put its border clash with Russia to use in a new domestic propaganda campaign. The aim is "to convert the workers' indignation at the Soviet revisionist armed provocation into revolutionary energy," as the official New China News Agency put it. According to the agency, miners promised to "produce more top-quality coal, so as to burn the Soviet revisionists, a paper tiger, into ashes." Workers at the Anshan Iron and Steel Company were reported so angry at the Russians that they opened a new furnace ahead of schedule...
...thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
...were lobbed across the canal. But despite a marked improvement in Egyptian gunnery since the last major exchange in October, casualties on both sides were relatively light. The Israelis put their own losses at five soldiers killed, 26 wounded, two vehicles destroyed, and a Piper Cub downed by a Soviet-made SA-2 missile. The Egyptians admitted to four soldiers killed, 39 wounded and 72 civilian casualties, as well as extensive damage to 14 oil tanks at the Suez and Nasr refineries...
...Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, located in the village of Peredelkino, a residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. At midnight the clergy and members of the congregation walk in procession around the church and enter through its main doors to celebrate the Resurrection. The Soviet authorities discourage religion, but they tolerate this rite-after a fashion. Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes the vigil at Peredelkino in the following story. It is published here in translation for the first time...
...years ago, began to be excerpted in Pravda. That was slightly surprising, since the novel had been rumored to be banned be cause of its critical portrayal of Joseph Stalin. In fact, Sholokhov does seem to go somewhat beyond what the Brezhnev regime has until now considered politic in Soviet literature-but not very far. He mentions the existence of Stalinist concentration camps, but in considerable understatement notes that "thousands" were wrongly imprisoned in them. Russians know the figures to be in the millions. Stalin would doubtless be astonished to read that many of his crimes were committed because...