Words

In 1936 the Nazi Propaganda Ministry endorsed the old German nationalist movement for Sprachreinigung (language purification). Soon Verdeutschungen (Germanized words) began to appear officially. Radio was changed to Rundfunk, Telefon to Fernsprecher, Automobil to Kraftwagen. The Relativitdtstheorie of famed refugee from Nazidom, Albert Einstein, became Bezuglichkeitsanschauungs-gesetz (relativity perception law).

Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan--hooligan, trolleibus--trolley bus, stend--stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist.

Professor Heinrich Deiters of Berlin Uni versity in the Russia sector announced that hereafter no student would be per mitted to pass the final examination un less he knew the Russian tongue.

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