Word: fascistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whatever else Fiorello is or is not, he is a stanch antiFascist. And antiFascists, paradoxically, are not in the best of standing with the policy-makers of the officially anti-Fascist forces...
...whole Red Army should consolidate and develop the successes of the winter battles, so it shall not surrender to the enemy a single inch of our soil, be prepared for decisive battles with the German Fascist invaders and display a stubbornness and stanchness in defense that is characteristic of the men of our army. Display offensive resolution . . . crowned by the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy...
...deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government has confounded him. Emigrés in London for months have printed anti-Russian, anti-Semitic and pro-fascist newspapers. The chauvinists' clamor, and that of an anti-Sikorski Polish press in the U.S., impelled Sikorski last Feb. 25 to demand a showdown with Stalin on the return of Poland's eastern provinces. From then on, relations between the two Governments have gone from bad to debacle...
...North Africa, and to "one single, common blow" by the Russians in the east, the U.S. and Britain in the west. And they heard him say: "A new blow is approaching when the Red Army, together with the armies of our Allies, will break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
Between 1919 (when Personal History begins) and 1942 (when Between the Thunder and the Sun ends) there occurred the aftermath of Bolshevik revolution, the Italian Fascist revolution, the Chinese revolution, the Nazi revolution, the New Deal, the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of World War II. At some time or other Vincent Sheean managed to look in at all of them. He has a unifying sense, derived from his Marxist studies, that all these historic spasms were related forms of a common convulsion, a worldwide social revolution. He writes with vividness and candor of his own life amidst this...