Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky finally cracked down in a draconic order calling for all-out denazification to be finished Feb. 20. Attacks against the U.S.'s and Britain's admittedly imperfect denazification were Communism's favorite propaganda device, and Molotov himself is undoubtedly planning to use...
"Tens of millions of people are protected from exploitation only by their illiteracy," he said, "But unless we have more reason to hope that what will be disseminated will be of better quality than we get by pushing a button on a radio today, ought we to help this spread...
Two fast Russian ships, packed tight as troop transports with tens of thousands of Armenians, have been shuttling for the last three months from Mediterranean ports through the Dardanelles toward Russia. One of the ships, the former Italian liner Saturnia (rechristened Rossia), brought gasps from disconsolate Turkish citizens on Istanbul...
In Micronesia, each of the three great archipelagoes (Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) has some atolls or mountain tops which the U.S. wants: Kwajalein and Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Truk and Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has...
Somewhat inconsistently, Vishinsky offered another definition. "After all, what is democracy if not the power of the people? . . .As Lenin said, every worker of our nation should be able to direct the state, and every cook should be able to govern. Democracy in the Soviet Union is in fact the...