Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Commissioner charged last week nothing less than that Amtorg is a backer, political and financial, of organized Communist agitation in the U. S., that Amtorg in short is helping to foment "the World Revolutions of the World Proletariat." Earlier victories of "ruble diplomacy" include the arrangement whereby - although the Soviet Government is supposed to be too reprehensible to receive diplomatic recognition - the State Department issues permits under which Chairman Bogdanov and his scores of Red employes come and go without hindrance between Moscow and New York. Mr. Whalen handed out to newspapers a set of letters obtained by his undercover...
...reporters Mr. Whalen described his documents as "very definite and complete." He identified the "Comrade Sversky" whom "Feodor" mentions as the paymaster of Red agents in the U. S., as Director Boris E. Skvirsky of the Soviet Union Information Bureau at Washington...
Seasoned observers noted that whenever letters purporting to incriminate the Soviet Government turn up: 1) They are always awkwardly phrased and always mention comrades by either first or last name but never both; 2) If they incriminate only Russians, there is a hullabaloo which dies down indecisively without any adequate investigation; 3) If high officials in the country where the letters appear seem to be involved, thorough investigation results in the conclusion that they are forgeries. (Cases in point: 1) The Zinoviev letter, now generally considered a forgery; 2) The letters purporting to show that Senators Borah and Norris...
Guilty. Sir Esmond has discovered nothing new, but his official confirmation is of historical value. Soviet law from the first has disenfranchised the previously privileged and exalted classes in Russia: the nobility, the priesthood, members of the former fighting and civil services. Excerpt from the Ovey report...
...leave Russia. They are not allowed to be offered employment of any kind, nor are their children permitted to be educated. These disabilities are shared with the former nobility and former members of the naval, military or civil service unless the latter are now in the service of the Soviet Government...