Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible, to reach the Pole (where Ivan Papanin planted the Red Flag...
Last week eleven U. S. planes were landed in Bergen and immediately transshipped to Finland, Italian fliers were raiding Soviet air bases (Moscow denied that Kronstadt was raided), thousands of Swedes were flying and fighting on skis for Finland; an American volunteer aviator, one William H. Wallace Jr., was reported killed and then not killed; a deepening stream of men, materials and money was flowing from England, France, Italy and Scandinavia, not to mention the relief funds collected by Herbert Hoover...
...anticipation of growing Finnish strength, Russia let loose a terrific attack.Soviet bombing planes in mass formation unloaded their bombs over seaports and rail centres, killed an estimated 150 civilians in three days, and reportedly bombed Viipuri's ancient cathedral. At the same time the Soviet Army tried to storm the Mannerheim Line by a direct frontal attack...
Then the Finns heard the drone of Russian bombers rising from their bases behind the Soviet lines. In close formation they flew high over the Finnish lines and dropped their loads. At the same time long rows of tanks moved forward...
...will be a red rag to bull-mad Californians who may or may not boycott it. Others, who were merely annoyed at the exaggerations, propaganda and phony pathos of John Steinbeck's best selling novel, may just stay away. Pinkos who did not bat an eye when the Soviet Government exterminated 3,000,000 peasants by famine, will go for a good cry over the hardships of the Okies. But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from...