Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm-water Baltic ports from "desperately" to "very much needed...
Finns who thought of Prague could guess what "conditions for a radical improvement" might be. While Finland's leftist Premier Mauno Pekkala began packing for a trip to Moscow, others in Finland were also snapping their suitcase locks. Swarms of Baltic and Russian refugees swamped Helsinki's Swedish consulate seeking visas, and in their near-panic quest for hard currency the open market price of a dollar shot up from 700 Finn-marks to 1,000. Finland's Communist
...Foreign Minister Molotov signed a 20-year treaty of alliance with Soviet puppet Hungary. Exultantly he proclaimed: this is the last link in the barrier against the imperialist states. "The Soviet Union now has pacts with all the states on its western frontier-from the Black Sea to the Baltic...
...secret protocol tothe Nazi-Soviet pact divvied up Poland and split the Baltic States between Russian and German spheres of influence. From the protocol: "The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish state and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. . . . Attention is called by the Soviet side to its interest in [Rumania's] Bessarabia...
What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century...