Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Even the Hungarians, who are thinking about a new military alliance with Italy, got the wind up. After all, Hungary now has a common frontier with Soviet Russia and Italy is far away. In Moscow, according to the official Soviet news agency Tass, Hungarian Minister Dr. Joseph Kristoffy called on Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potemkin and formally denied "tendentious rumors" that the recent Italian-Hungarian talks in Venice were "directed against the Soviet Union." Since these "rumors" had originated in Hungarian official circles in Buda pest, the incident showed that Hungary too was frightened by the crisis...
...Finnish Schutzcorps brutally killed their wounded in order not to leave 'tongues' in the hands of the Soviet troops...
...same foreign agencies . . . allege that 'The Russians lost Petsamo.' . . . Since Dec. 1 Petsamo has been in the hands of Soviet troops." (True.) Letting their feelings run away with them, the Russians then added a weird tale of their...
...foreign agencies . . . shout themselves hoarse that Finnish troops broke through the front in all directions, crossed the Soviet frontier and wage operations on U. S. S. R. territory. This is an utter lie. ... In reality, Finnish troops have never reached Soviet frontiers in any direction. As a matter of fact they have hardly set themselves to such a task." (True, except for small raiding parties...
...foreign agencies . . . alleged that in the battle area of Suomussalmi the 44th Soviet Division 'lost 14,000 men.'... In reality, casualties of Soviet troops there have not exceeded 900 men." (U. S. correspondents visited the scene of battle, saw bodies of Russian dead, confirmed Finnish reports of an undeniable Russian rout. The Russians have admitted a "withdrawal." The Finns have never claimed the destruction of more than 6,000 Russians.) >-"The foreign agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway...