Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeatedly stated, and we believe with all sincerity, that his main war aim is to free "Russian soil" from the Nazi armies, meaning that he intends to keep only those regions which used to be part of old Tsarist Russia: the Baltic Provinces of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania which in 1940 voted almost unanimously (under pressure) for incorporation into the Soviet the eastern half of pre-war Poland, occupied by Russian in 1939 and inhabited largely not by Poles but by White Russians and Lithuanians; the Ukraine; Bessarabia; and bits of Bukovina and Moldavia. If, in addition to gaining these...
Empty Ghettos. The ghettos established by the Nazis in Poland and the Baltic States are ghost towns today, decimated by deportation and execution on the spot. "The Warsaw ghetto is empty. The streets crowded only a year ago with 500,000 Jews are silent now. . . . Last month gunfire was heard in Warsaw for several days. When it stopped, the Germans had finished their task. The last of the Jews were gone...
...Record. Since Stalin has been Russia's dictator, Russia has made much of abiding by signed agreements and official promises. The occupation of the Baltic States was accomplished by diplomatic pressure. The military occupation of part of Poland, the Russian argument runs, took place after the Government of Poland with which Russia had a non-aggression pact had ceased to exist. Fin land was attacked on the somewhat flimsy grounds that the Finns allegedly fired first. Nevertheless, Russia's efforts to keep the peace of Europe were stronger than most. She tried to give the League vitality...
...leave many a forward-looking question unanswered. They omit any reference to Japan, with which Russia has a non-aggression pact. Some of the phraseology of these declarations is ambiguous and, to the Allied way of thinking, at least open to debate: e.g., the inclusion of Bessarabia and the Baltic States ("our brothers") in "Soviet lands"; government, self-chosen or not, which is "opportune and necessary...
...North Africa has caused certain British and U.S. citizens qualms, it had certainly not been reassuring to the Reds. They cannot be any more certain of the Allied game in Yugoslavia than the Allies can of theirs. The Russians, who consider that they have a right to the Baltic States and Bessarabia, do not like to hear Americans question that right. When Columnist Constantine Brown did just that last week, Pravda answered angrily: "Why should he not make a generous present of California or Alaska to the United States? Do there not exist curious people who are ready to present...