Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Compared to Stalin and Communism, Mussolini and Fascism are negligible forces. More than 69 times larger than the Kingdom of Italy, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
Already these myriads of power plants, tractor works, mines, factories and whole new cities for workers have meant to U. S. business since the stockmarket crash $450,000,000 in contracts now being executed. Moreover Amtorg, the principal trade representative of the Soviet Government in Manhattan, has bought more than $211,580,000 worth of U. S. goods in the past six years...
Christian statesmen campaign, sometimes vigorously, sometimes desultorily against opium. In much the same spirit Soviet statesmen campaign against religion. With entire sincerity they believe that "Religion is opium for the people," but they can spare only a fraction of their time for the anti-Religion crusade?now largely conducted by the Society of Militant Atheists (600,000 members...
...take only a part-time interest in the Third International. This organization is defined in its official program as "The gravedigger of the Capitalist system." Its frankly avowed purpose is to foment in every land "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." It operates legally apart from the Soviet Government, actually with an interlocking directorate...
...Because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviet government, the Department of Labor is unable to deport some 1,000 Russians it now holds as undesirable aliens...