Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There would be quite a few empty chairs. Finland was the first country to turn down "provisionally" the invitation to Paris. Other disappointed satellites would follow. Czechoslovakia and Poland, however, wriggled restively in Mother Russia's embrace. Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Klement Gottwald prepared to journey to Moscow for advice...
After ten weeks in Russia, TIME Correspondent Samuel Welles went on to Finland and Sweden and, without censorship, reported...
...these servants of a "classless" society dare ask their officers. They preferred to ask me, a foreigner. Most revealing of all was the view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that had been part of Finland. Viipuri was ghostlike and still in the morning sun. The people were in rags. They were still living in dugouts and log houses. Few of the fields were plowed. Everything seemed static...
...Finland, Estonia, Latvia...
...Finland. 4. Italy...