Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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High-level Whispers. The Soviet arms budget is, however, undeniably under pressure, because the Soviet civilian economy has been badly shortchanged as a result of Russia's costly military intervention in Czechoslovakia and the buildup along the Chinese border. Moscow urgently needs to increase its investment in agriculture, which suffered heavily this year as severe weather snapped a string of good harvests. Western experts scoff that some of the 160 million-ton grain crop the Soviets are claiming to harvest "must still be under the snow...
...While Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev whispered in the gallery behind the rostrum, Chief Soviet Planner Nikolai Baibakov manfully defended the progress of the current 1965-70 five-year plan. He conceded that next year there would be only a modest wage increase of 3% for factory and office workers and 4.6% for collective farmers. Nevertheless, Baibakov boasted that in comparison with 15 years ago, "every 100 families in 1970 will have 71 radios as against 61, 52 washing machines as against 21, and 32 refrigerators instead of only eleven." His list, however, could not mask...
...about accepting Dubček, the Turkish government responded with wholehearted approval. Dubček is something of a hero to many Turks. Because of the extraordinary appeal of Dubček's brand of "Socialism with a human face," the Czechoslovaks could not send him to another Soviet-bloc nation. They apparently chose Turkey because of its established reputation for suppressing foreign political intrigues...
...letter arrived at a time when the general diplomatic climate in Central Europe seemed to be improving. Until last week, Walter Ulbricht, the East bloc's most durable Stalinist, had appeared to be Europe's odd man out. Even as the Soviet Union and his other Communist allies arranged bilateral talks with Bonn, he went right on insisting that West Germany must recognize his regime as the price for any negotiations about lessening tensions. But last week, at Ulbricht's bidding, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) unanimously passed a resolution empowering the government...
...Sino-Soviet split revealed...