Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko sent a peremptory note accusing Finland of harboring more than 300 "war criminals," the last of thousands of Soviet citizens-Ingrians, Estonians, Karelians-who had fled as the Red army pushed back the Wehrmacht in 1944. The Russians specifically demanded the surrender of 65 of the fugitives for "treason." The hard-pressed Finns made some arrests, but it was clear that they would not find most of the fugitives. Gromyko knew this well: Russia had asked for the return of the "traitors" before, when Communist Yrjõ Leino was still Interior Minister. Not even...
...refusal to submit to the recommended control. The USSR holds that the UN plan is only a slight variation of the "unfair" U.S. proposal, presented at the first meeting of the Commission in 1946, and that the Russian system, outlined a few days later, is the only acceptable one. Soviet delegates claim that the UN plan is politically loaded in favor of the West, and is calculated to give the U.S. a strategic advantage...
Russia, on the other hand, says that the Commission recommendations on possible action should be funneled through the Security Council--where the veto is in force. The Soviet plan calls for immediate destruction of all atomic bomb stockpiles, before international control goes into operation, and periodic inspection of production facilities, with punishments for violations to be administered by the country in which the violation occurs...
Arguing against the Soviet proposal, U.S. delegates point out that use of the veto would make the control system meaningless, since one of the Big Five could halt punishment of its own violation. Britain, speaking for the Commission majority, states that "periodic" inspection would mean no control at all: a country could easily cover up a violation before the UN inspectors made their visit...
...that since the Big Five countries are designated permanent members of the UNAEC, the West will probably always have a majority on the Commission. Thus, under the proposed plan, Russian industrial development of atomic energy, if only for peaceful purposes, would be controlled by nations favoring the U.S., Soviet delegates assert. As for the "stages" aspect, the USSR claims that it was placed there to preserve the U.S. monopoly of bombs--which existed in 1946--until the U.S. could be certain of its ability to control atomic production throughout the world...