Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Colonel General Iosif V. Shikin, chief of the Central Political Administration of the Soviet Armed Forces, i.e., boss of all Red army "indoctrination...
Ivan T. Golyakov, president of the Soviet Supreme Court...
...star of the show in Moscow, next to Stalin, was the fat, up-and-coming Georgy M. Malenkov, who made the principal birthday pronouncement. Western observers thought they detected in it the beginning of yet another of Russia's recurrent "peace offensives." Said Malenkov; "The Soviet Union considers the road of peaceful competition with capitalism as quite acceptable...
Next day, the problem of the prisoners gave Derevyanko new troubles. When his car pulled up to the Soviet embassy shortly after noon, he found the gate closed, the compound surrounded by some 400 sad-eyed Japanese who wanted an answer to a petition in which they begged information on their missing relatives Derevyanko sneaked into the embassy by the back door, later sent an interpreter out to deal with the crowd. He got the petitioners to disperse on promise of an answer this week...
Said General Douglas MacArthur of Derevyanko's walkout: "I can well understand the reluctance of the Soviet member to listen to so gruesome and savage a story in all its harrowing barbarity. It would well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier...