Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued Comrade Molotov, it may be that these little States will "prove unable to defend their neutrality in the event of an attack by aggressors." In that case, since they are border buffers, Soviet Russia would want them defended whether the States themselves agreed or not. The Foreign Commissar used the same line of argument in objecting to the Aland (pronounced o-land) Islands fortifications now planned by Sweden and Finland. The islands are near the Gulf of Finland. Armed and in hostile hands, they could close the U. S. S. R.'s only Baltic window...
Unsympathetic. Nor were Comrade Molotov's statements on general policy lost on his hearers. He put to rest any thought that the Soviet Union was thinking of lining up with Germany, although he saw no harm in continuing German-Russian trade relations. The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, "can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors...
...stand for peace and for preventing the further development of aggression," said the Foreign Commissar. "But we must remember Comrade Stalin's precept: 'to be cautious and not to allow our country to be drawn into conflicts by warmongers who are accustomed to have others pull chestnuts out of the fire for them...
...William and Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General, friend...
Besides getting Glenn expelled from the Party for questioning decisions, Comrade Silverstone steals Glenn's mistress. Glenn's final disillusionment comes in Spain, where he goes to fight with the Loyalists. Again Comrade (now Commissar) Silverstone pops up, this time contrives to get Glenn arrested as a "Trotskyist-Bukharinist wrecker...