Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...eighty-nine people killed and wounded before the Winter Palace on Jan. 9, 1905.* No one, least of all myself, excuses this action, but I think that in your plan you could have made another notation, that near the Prisons of Kristi, in December 1917, by order of the Soviet Government, 2,760 people were executed in two days, and the only explanation was that it was a "protective measure...
MOSCOW--The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet today ratified the Soviet-Finnish peace pact which ended their three-and-one-half months...
According to Mr. Williams, the Soviet leaders of today are "doped by their own propaganda" and the Kremlin "has brought the level of intelligence of all Russia down to its own. . . . The Kremlin actually was surprised and deeply resentful of the fact that the Finns shot at them. . . . The Slav intellect can't understand anyone fighting for such an abstract thing as freedom. . . . The trouble with Russia is that it's large but not great. The myth of the mighty Red Army has been shattered and Stalin can never regain the lost prestige of the Finnish debacle...
...rage against the film, accusing MARCH OF TIME of conniving with the Government, Canada at large lost patience with noisy Mitch, and his ban. "Arrant nonsense," snapped the Montreal Star. "It would be difficult to imagine any more puerile or childish action." Actually every country in the world except Soviet Russia and Germany would see the film, and Toronto newspapers republished its dialogue...
Finns still held Viipuri. Day after day the Russian hammer pounded, but the Finns did not give much though Russian sources reported that Soviet troops had captured the northern and eastern parts of the ancient port, and seemed slowly to be forging a steel ring around the deserted city...