Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poles in being whipped so soon. When Russia's military machine began to move, more than 3,000,000 well-equipped, well-trained German-Russian troops were driving in opposite directions against the forlorn remnants of Poland's scattered, shattered, fragmentary armies. Still dizzy with successes, Premier Molotov made a radio address: "Comrades," said he, "men and women citizens of our great country, events arising out of the Polish-German War have revealed . . . the obvious impotence of the Polish State...
...Premier Molotov, whose name in Russian means Hammer (Stalin means Steel), whose pretty wife Paulina is Commissar of Fisheries and is very close to Stalin, may well have been taken by surprise. If so, his astonishment last week must have mounted hourly. No sooner had the German-Russian pact been hailed as thwarting the foul design of British Tories to direct German expansion to the East than the German Army did what (in the Russian view) Tories had failed to accomplish-i.e., directed German expansion to the East...
Snug in the workers' fatherland, Premier Hammer and Secretary Steel watched their friends approaching. To the rest of the world the race-rout through Poland looked like a bloody blur. To Poles it was just bloody. But to Russians it was coming closer all the time. Over the plains, around the swamps, through the cities, past Cracow, Lwow, Brest-Litovsk, into Galicia, down to the Polish Ukraine, hurried the approaching friends, grabbing the industrial region and the coal mines in passing, looking as big and as powerful as an express train seems to a motorist stalled in the middle...
...Premier Molotov soon came back to the big problem: "Nobody could have expected the Polish state would have such impotence . . . collapse is a fact . . . Polish statesmen have revealed their utter bankruptcy...
Therefore, the Premier was convinced, "our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Rumania, Lithuania, Norway, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic, and the Tuva People's Republic...