Word: bolshevists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Broadcasting Station," accused the other, the "Workers Challenge Station," of stooging for Cripps. The "Workers' Challenge" boys made a show of defending Cripps-while subtly characterizing him as a revolutionist. Last week the German radio kept turning the screw with this latest twist on the Bolshevist Bogey theme...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
Odessa, Pearl of the Black Sea, historic Russian seaport and No. 3 industrial center in the Ukraine, was unimpressed. It was bombarded by the French after the Bolshevist Revolution of 1917. The city was built almost entirely of stone; during the famine of 1921-23 the inhabitants razed wooden buildings for fuel. Odessa's citizens tore up the ultimatum, settled down for a siege...
...chaos-during which he was imprisoned for a few days by radical upstarts. In the 19205 he saw a crucifying inflation. In 1931 he saw six or seven million restless unemployed. And he saw in Hitler a potential guarantor of order and prosperity, a holder of the dike against Bolshevist Russia...
...There were many to whom any definite alliance with the Soviet Government brought not unnatural misgivings. It may seem strange to combine alliance with Bolshevist Russia with the claim that we are contending for a Christian civilization. But such misgivings are really misplaced...