Word: sovietization
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Slashing, it began: "We are furious at the appeal of the Pope for a crusade against the Soviet. . . . We declare before the entire World that the only government which does everything to assist the pre-Revolutionary persecuted and rightless nation of Jewry to better organize its life is the Soviet Government! It grants land to the Jews, provides them with tools in their new settlements and gives them rights equally with other nations to elect their own Soviet...
...Point a Single Instance!" To Moscow from London hurried spruce, grey-haired Ed. L. Keen, Vice President of United Press for Europe, and was received by Prime Minister Alexy Rykov of the Soviet Union, the man whom Dictator Josef Stalin is behind...
...seven years ago Shoeman Schultzenstein married a girl with whom he lived until 1923, when she attacked him with a meat-hatchet. Husband and wife then lived apart until 1926, when he made a business connection in Leningrad, went there to live. Soon he took a Russian wife under Soviet law without previously divorcing his meat-hatchet spouse in Germany...
Perplexed, the Court sought advice from German authorities on international law, learned that: 1) The German Republic recognizes as valid the law of the Soviet Union; 2) German courts cannot hold that an act committed in Russia is criminal if it is not criminal in Russia; 3) Under Soviet law the act of bigamy is not criminal, though if a man takes a second wife either she or the first may demand redress by bringing suit to have one of the marriages declared invalid...
...John Reed, young Harvard poet, went to Russia in 1918 to join the Soviet Revolution, died of typhus, was given a state burial just outside the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow...