Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Train Trouble. Of course the Russians, though soothed by the fact that all of Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased...
...present time we cannot consider James's words as his own - they are really the voice of his master-owner - we hope he gets full freedom. But it will come to him only if he replaces Sulzberger as owner, or in case what he calls the Russian conception of press freedom triumphs everywhere...
Died. Princess Olga Radziwill, 60, wife of Prince Leon Radziwill of Nieswiez and Kleck, who owned an estate in Poland (until the Russian invasion in 1939) which was once larger than Belgium; in Monaco, where the couple lived in exile...
Communism, the 20th Century's great myth, has spawned a host of subsidiary myths. Conspicuous among them is the widely peddled notion that Russia's dictatorship of the proletariat has lifted proletarians to new heights of human dignity. The Russian line is: We have liquidated capitalism and thereby ended the exploitation of workers. The reality is that the Soviet economy rests squarely on a base of slave labor and that the Soviet Union is the greatest slave state in history...
...Russian slave class, as Dallin analyzes it, has three principal divisions: 1) habitual criminals; 2) dethroned bureaucrats; 3) politicals. In the pariah society that suffers a living death behind the barbed wire of the camp's, the criminals are the elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...