Word: tass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian news agency Tass reported this week that Vichy had given Germany 40 warships and "many" submarines that were under construction at the time of the armistice. Tass said that an agreement for gradually transferring a large part of the French Navy had long ago been reached...
This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa, 140 miles south of still-besieged Leningrad, Soviet troops were guided by a guerrilla named Ivan Grozny, who is known as "Ivan the Terrible." Guerrilla Grozny and his guerrillas cut communications, uprooted German mine fields, finally marched 25 miles through bitter cold and deep snow to help encircle the Germans...
Churches were closed in Kaunas and Vilna, markets suspended throughout Lithuania. Tass, Soviet News Agency, claimed a captured German medical report said that "100% of our soldiers (in one battalion) are more or less covered with lice" - not an incredible statement to men who remember World...
Joseph Stalin ordered speedy preparations. He had Comrade Mayor Pronin address the citizens. Street-to-street plans were laid. Old women, small children and useless people were evacuated. "The breath of the front is strongly felt here," wrote Tass, official news agency. "A new line of defenses is being constructed. . . . People of the most varied professions have taken to the spade-women, weavers, streetcar drivers, students and teachers." Moscow changed within a week from capital into fortress...
Reporting by official and neutral news agencies was dreamy, unreal, ridiculously ironic. D.N.B. told of Alpine troops fighting on Ukraine's plains; Tass described Germans rushing into battle "in a drunken condition," Rumanians being pushed into battle at the bayonet's point; and though there had never been such vastnesses, the world's press was overfed with vignettes -a number of Russian peasants capturing three parachutists, two planes dropping eight bombs which killed a postman and burned two barns at Tammisaari, Finland...