Word: bessarabia
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...control in Germany; on the enforced breakup of the Greater Reich, first by restoring Austria's independence; on the interests to prevail in the Balkans, where both Russia and Britain have great stakes; and, by silent implication, on control of Russia's European borderlands (eastern Poland, Bessarabia, the Baltics). And they agreed to agree on a postwar association of nations, otherwise undefined, "for the maintenance of international peace and security...
...known in advance. The U.S.S.R. wants a strong, friendly, de-Nazied Germany, the U.S. and Britain want a weakened Germany. Russia, as her press plainly said last week, refuses even to discuss the Soviet domination of her "security belt" in the Baltic States, eastern Poland, prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the parts of Finland seized in 1940, all of which belonged to Czarist Russia...
...west, the Soviet Union therefore is determined to have a territorial "security belt.". In all probability these areas-the Baltic States, old Poland's "White Russia," prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the northern lands taken from Finland in 1940-will not be subject to discussion at the conferences...
...Russian territories "returned to the last square inch" (including the Baltic States, that part of Poland occupied by the Red Army in 1939, Bessarabia and Bucovina, portions of Finland...
...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 wide territories for protection against Germany, he is convinced that the Western Allies will take effective measures to prevent a future German menace to Russia, it is more than likely that Stalin will be satisfied to let them...