Word: sovietizing
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...Taken to a first aid center, he was accused of attacking a Soviet militia man and, about 10 days later, was expelled from the country for “hooliganism...
Bridell, then Judith A. Gilmartin, was one of several Harvard students who took part in either this program in Poland and the USSR or an academic student exchange between the Soviet bloc countries and the United States. Both had the stated goals of promoting a cultural appreciation for—and understanding of—the “other side...
Students fortunate enough to be selected for the “Experiment” program traveled to Poland or the Soviet Union and mingled with students in that country, staying in Warsaw or Krakow in Poland or moving around from region to region in the USSR...
Those lucky enough to peek behind the ideological barrier in the midst of the Cold War found that the Soviet Union and Poland were not quite the countries of extreme oppression under harsh Communist regimes that they had expected...
Gail W. Lapidus ’59, who went to the USSR on an academic exchange, said she found a radically different Soviet Bloc than she had anticipated and that these trips into Communist territory helped to “humanize” the area to Americans unaware of actual happenings in a world shrouded by Communist mystique...