Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essence that the Soviet Union should demobilize and that we should disarm." In other words, Russia would lose nothing by sending the troops home, while we would render ineffectual our science-dependent war machine. The first of two important points over looked by this Machiavellian school is that the USSR economy is today suffering from an acute shortage of farm and industrial manpower. Her eagerness to demobilize is based upon hard-headed, urgent, home need. Because Russia is not naively confident of peace, her disarmament plans can hardly be attributed to a clever scheme for gaining arms supremacy. The second...
...first USSR production in color, the picture is nothing but a series of views of the first post-war sports celebration in Red Square, Moscow. As an exhibition of color and acrobatic skill, of beauty in sheer numbers, or of the incredible diversity of peoples in the Soviet Republic, it is impressive. But after only a few minutes awe gives way to boredom and horror of a sort...
...half times increase in funds for scientists recalled Stalin's speech last February when he said, "It is necessary not only to overtake but to exceed in the nearest future the achievements of science outside of the USSR...
...future of our foreign relations hinges on the answer to one question: "What are the aims of Soviet Russia?" Specifically, will the USSR be satisfied with security or is she planning a program of territorial expansion beyond the requirements of national safety? Russia's actions subsequent to the capitulation of Germany and Japan can be interpreted so as to support either possibility. As yet no one this side of the "iron curtain" not even the "experts" of Harvard's high-powered government department, can be sure which interpretation is correct...
...during the German occupation, and many of whom took no part in the resistance movement sponsored by the liberal parties headed by the EAM. Leading policies of the present government are restoration of King George and a "Greater Greece" which will include the Dodecanese Islands, now coveted by the USSR...