Word: estonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his twelve years as master of the Kremlin few authentic anecdotes have been printed about mysterious, closelipped, Georgia-born Joseph Stalin. Last week able New York Times Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, nosing about the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) which have been taken under the Soviet Union's "protective" wing, picked up what he thought were some genuine ones that came out of Russia's recent Baltic negotiations...
Reporter Tolischus found that, frightened as were the bourgeois Baltic States at the Soviet advance, so far the Russians had observed all the diplomatic niceties with "banquets, mutual felicitations and exchanges of congratulatory telegrams." When the Soviet troops marched into Estonia the guns of both nations gave mutual salutes, bands played both the Estonian anthem and the Internationale. Attempts of Baltic Communists to "tovarish" the visiting Russians were received coldly. At Wilno, self-appointed Communists started to purge the bourgeoisie before the Soviet soldiers arrived, but once in control the Russians either shot the local Communists or deported them...
Nazi Hitler, many Scandinavians feared last week, may shortly begin trying to force Sweden, Denmark and Norway into vassalage to Germany by the same threatening tactics which Bolshevik Stalin has employed successfully in recent weeks to vassalize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is now trying on Finland. Red Russia, once she got a whip hand over the Finns, would be strategically placed to threaten Scandinavia, unless Germany exerted a counterthrust, and in Stockholm last week the talk was gloomy. Current were such wry cracks as, "We shall soon know whether we Swedes are Germans or Russians...
...captains offered them large glasses of smoking hot Russian tea. Immediate question was what to do with 300 Red Army troops who were now sailing into the harbor aboard the Soviet transport Luga. These were only the first instalment of 25,000 Soviet soldiers who are being brought to Estonia under the Treaty to garrison Stalin's bases. The Estonians agreed to billet these troops in private homes. Since most Estonians speak or understand Russian, since every Red Army soldier is well drilled in Communist propaganda, this billeting seemed clearly a Soviet opening wedge. Moreover the Red Fleet brought...
...naval harbor worth Russia's taking. Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel. Nevertheless, last week in Moscow the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys signed with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a treaty reducing his country to the same status as Latvia and Estonia, but with two new wrinkles...