Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffer. There had been reports in highest Berlin and Moscow circles that a strip of Poland would be left as a "buffer state" between Russia and Germany. This was even mooted in an official Moscow broadcast. Brushing it aside, the High Commands decided that no sufficient Polish authority remained in Poland last week to form the nucleus of a useful buffer, that the only thing to do was to draw the technically strongest possible frontier, separating the Russian and German Armies by the physical expanse of three great Polish rivers, the Narew, the Vistula...
...between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that LwÓw actually fell before the besiegers withdrew, but there seemed little doubt that Communist papers were right in reporting that Russians captured LwÓw. On its whole broad drive into Poland, the Red Army reported taking 120,000 Polish prisoners, capturing 380 pieces of artillery, 120 airplanes...
...Radek? "The population of [Polish] villages and towns . . . enthusiastically meets the Red Army. The mighty Red Army and the high cultural level of its rank and file evoke general admiration. The population tears down Polish flags and replaces them with Soviet flags. . . . Peasants offered the Red Army the traditional bread and 'salt [tokens of brotherhood] on embroidered towels and invited Red Army men into their houses." So said Tass, the official Soviet news agency. As the week advanced, Communist cohorts from Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons...
...Polish policemen, identified in Soviet minds with Capitalism, were hunted from house to house, new Soviet police were described as "Workers' Guards." The Moscow radio announced that battalions of peasants were tracking down former Polish landlords who were hiding in the marshes and forests, clapping them into jail, added: "All their lands, livestock and personal belongings are being divided among the peasantry." Reported seized near Krzemieniec was one of Poland's greatest landlords, Prince Janusz Radziwill, president of the Polish Red Cross and head of one of the four most ancient and historic families in Poland. Captured near...
...Moscow the Red Army newsorgan Red Star published the text of leaflets given to Russian soldiers before they were started out for Poland, assuring them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reported that famed Karl Radek, who was the No. 1 Soviet publicist up to 1937 when he got ten years in jail for plotting with Nazis, has actually been "busy in Moscow since last March organizing Polish Bolsheviks for the very situation which has now developed." Reports from...