Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Whimpering Tenors. In Moscow one-time Soviet Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky said, after listening to a pre-release of several new U. S. singing films: "They were spoiled for me by the vulgar, overfed faces of the tenors. . . . I could readily dispense with their tasteless mimicry, their coquettish rolling of eyes, their whimpering graces...
...land, will be allowed to stay on it as a humble toiler on the Government's "collective farm." In the Dictator's mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...
...Soviet anti-religious climaxes to date came, last week, the dynamiting and flinging into the River Moskva of the Simonov Monastery with its 400-ft. bell tower...
...that recent anti-Mexican demonstrations by communists in Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro were secretly instigated by the Russian government, Mexico last week broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed the Mexican legation in Moscow, set a squad of detectives to eye each and every visitor to the Soviet legation in Mexico City...
...RUST-Soviet problems made dramatically exciting...