Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Foreign Exhibits, World War II notwithstanding, still make Mr. Gibson's show a World's Fair in fact. Total: 49 (last year, 58). Gone is Soviet Russia's palace (on its site an "American Common", where foreign societies...
...replace those lost in the West), boomed a Swedish-Russian rapprochement based on protective Russian power. Significant was revived talk of a Russian-Finnish-Swedish treaty for joint fortification of the strategic Aland Islands, with Finn Juho Paasikivi, whom Stalin likes, as possible intermediary. Sweden, impressed alike by Soviet moderation in Finland and the Baltic States, and German "protection" in Denmark and Poland, seemed about to make the best of a none too good bargain...
...political commissar with overriding authority is unpractical. It implies that the officer is not fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced that Soviet officers have now been given "full power and responsibility," denounced the "dilettantism" and "ossified dogma" of the commissar system...
...link in the chain of measures strengthening discipline of the armed forces. . . . The titles of general and admiral reflect clearly that the [Army & Navy] commanders have full authority. . . . The results of the Finnish and Far Eastern campaigns established their authority among the Red Army and the masses of the Soviet people...
Timoshenko. In naming the new Defense Commissar, Dictator Stalin also let it be known for the first time who brought to its victorious conclusion the Finnish campaign. Both were the same man, Marshal Semion Timoshenko. The Marshal is a Bolshevik so comparatively obscure that the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia gives him not a line...