Word: zistersdorf
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Clark quickly learned how to use the Russians' obvious weaknesses. When they seized the Zistersdorf oilfields, he innocently inquired during a Council session: "Supposing we consider pig iron. Do you need any?" The interpreter snapped back: "Marshal Konev wishes General Clark to know that the Soviet Union does not need pig iron from anyone." Replied Clark quietly: "All right then, let's take the case of oil." The Russians, who never admit publicly that the Red Army needs oil, agreed to let almost the entire Zistersdorf output go to cover Austria's own needs...
Expropriation. Under the loosely worded Potsdam agreement the Russians have claimed most of the property the Nazis took from Austria after the forced Anschluss. Much of Austria's industrial equipment has gone East. The Russians take all but a dribble of the production of the Zistersdorf oilfields; Russian levies on the Austrian treasury defeated all the Government's efforts to stabilize the currency...
...Austria, the Red Army abruptly took over the Zistersdorf oilfield, against Austrian and Allied opposition...
Recognition was in the works. But the Renner regime seemed unable to please everybody. On U. S. and British advice it shied away from a thinly veiled Russian scheme to cut in on the big Zistersdorf oil fields. Last week Red Army officers reportedly took over at Zistersdorf, booted the Austrian managers...