Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Constantsa last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send Russian oil to help Adolf Hitler win his war, and just about to come snailing into Constantsa at last was the first load of Soviet crude for the Nazis...
...Sakhaline, bung full with 70,000 barrels of crude from the Caucasus, and three more Soviet tankers tagged in her wake. Often before Constantsa dock hands had cheered the arrival of ships from the "Toilers' Fatherland," fraternized in waterfront dives with Soviet sailors. This reception of the Sakhaline was the warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader...
Dear Friend No. 2. It is a Soviet tradition that the No. 2 Bolshevik shall run the No. 2 Russian city. The job used to be held by Stalin's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov, whose bumping-off in 1934 gave the world a new word: purge. To succeed Kirov, Stalin picked chubby little Andrei Alexandrovitch Zhdanov, who up to that time had been a fairly inconspicuous Soviet administrator. He had picked up the Order of Lenin for successfully organizing a motorcar industry in the Nizni-Novgorod district. By the time Kirov was shot, Andrei Zhdanov, 38, had become...
...dozen Communist deputies were found to have condemned "Soviet treason." They could remain in the Chamber. Most of the others had organized a French Workers' & Farmers' Party. That was held to be a mere subterfuge; they were ousted. André Marty, fiery Communist expert on the French Army, had disappeared. Deputy Leader Maurice Thorez had deserted from the Army. They both lost their citizenship...
Southern Stirrings. While the Soviet Fleet maneuvered in the Black Sea, a British cruiser halted and searched the Soviet freighter Svanetia just outside the Dardanelles. The Turkish Cabinet invoked its new powers, set up a committee to coordinate war effort...