Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Only a very minor fraction of public opinion today favors the diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia by the U. S. If and when a major fraction favors such recognition the Department of State will promptly drop its objections and formulate a new principle whereby diplomatic relations may be resumed. Last week two potent travelers returned to the U. S., shifted from the major to the minor fraction group by announcing their conversion to Russian recognition...
Declared Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, heretofore no Russian recruit: "An American entering Russia must unlearn a good deal. . . . I never saw such optimism. . . . If the stable government now maintained by the Soviet is continued, the U. S. will have to give serious consideration to negotiations looking toward recognition...
Finland, a country some 30,000 sq. mi. larger than Italy, stretches north from Leningrad to the Arctic Ocean, a sort of buffer between Soviet Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is chiefly known to the U. S. as one of the only three governments in the world* which maintain absolute Prohibition of liquor, and as the country whence come great endurance runners (Paavo Nurmi, Willie Ritola et al.) and house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid. Correspondents have described it as a country riddled with lakes, bootleggers and Bolshevik propagandists. Official Finland, puny before...
From house to house, from door to door, uniformed Russian police finecombed the cities of Moscow and Kiev last week, looking for kopecks. Bank officials conferred with mint officials, they agreed that too much Russian small change was disappearing from circulation. Despite all the rigor of Soviet laws designed to keep money in circulation, Russian citizens were up to their old trick of hoarding money, bronze and copper coins in particular...
...While Soviet papers flayed them as "counter revolutionaries," Bogdanov, Simonov, Frolov, Mashkov & companions were marched in front of a firing squad, shot dead...