Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was immense admiration, too, for the skillful powering of diplomacy with military might which had enabled the Russians within five months to knock out of the war four Axis satellites (Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary) and, with the help of Marshal Tito's Partisans, to liberate most of Yugoslavia and force the German withdrawal from Greece...
Hungary and Finland were under Red Army control. Even Czechoslovakia, which had long been Russia's friend, was threatened with the incorporation of its only liberated province, Ruthenia, into the Soviet Ukraine...
There was the stubborn fact of Russia's entrenched power through half of continental Europe from Finland to Greece. Did Russia mean to exclude her allies completely from this sphere...
...seem a little weak at arithmetic. For the Polish group now unilaterally recognized by Moscow is the ninth of a series. The other political entities which the Soviet Union treats as 'governments,' in contrast to the U.S.A. and Britain, are the three Baltic states, the . . . administrations of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. If this process continues unchecked, we must, before this war ends, expect to see the Soviet Union set up further stooges in four more countries, namely, Austria, Slovakia, Iran and (why not?) Manchuria...
...Americans, must not forget," he said, "that when the Far East takes the place of Europe as the main theatre of war, we are going to feel about the islands of the Pacific, the coast of China, and the countries of southeastern Asia as Soviet Russia feels about Finland, the Baltic states, and the Balkans...