Word: tasse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-suppressed novel, The Plot of the Indifferent, with a preface by his widow referring to his "arrest based on the slander of provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism and "grave mental depression...
...February Khrushchev and Bulganin reluctantly agreed to this tight little schedule, but changed their minds after seeing how successful pudgy Georgy Malenkov was on his recent glad-hand tour of Britain. Last week from Moscow the official Russian news agency Tass angrily expressed dissatisfaction: "The Soviet leaders lay great significance on their forthcoming talks with leaders of the British Government . . . But at the same time they would greatly like to meet the ordinary people working in factories and other enterprises . . . Apparently there are some forces in Britain who do not wish to permit wider contacts between Soviet leaders...
...Germans asked the Russians to incorporate both reservations in the communiqué. The Russians, as the Germans had anticipated, refused. So Adenauer put them out unilaterally for the record. The Russians briskly dismissed both. "The [Bonn] Republic is part of Germany," said an official statement distributed by Tass. "Another part of Germany is the [East] German Democratic Republic." Germany's borders were settled at Potsdam, the statement added. There the wartime Allies handed the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland, pending a final peace treaty...
...announcement, .made the same week in satellite Czechoslovakia, that 34,000 men will shortly be dropped from the Czech Red army. But Communist delegations from Czechoslovakia. Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary. East Germany, Mongolia, Korea, Poland, listening intently to Khrushchev's words, found a message there. The applause, according to Tass, was "tempestuous and prolonged...
...Recent developments, and especially the outcome of the [Big Four] conference at Geneva, bear witness to the fact that a certain relaxation of tensions has taken place," said the official Tass statement. The Russians explained their new move as an attempt to "establish confidence among nations." Whether the Kremlin would keep its promise there was no means of knowing, since the Iron Curtain makes inspection impossible. Tass went on to say that the 640,000 would be sent back "to their places of residence" and be "ensured employment in industrial establishments and collective farms," i.e., they would...