Word: propertyless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their high standard of living, their separate educational system, they had long held a power far exceeding their numbers. They had become part & parcel of the political and social life of the countries of which they were only nominally citizens. As "capitalists," they could scarcely have welcomed the classless, propertyless society which Russia threatens to introduce in those Baltic States, and they would probably be the first to suffer in a hammer-&-sickle regime. Understandably, most Balts chose return to Germany as the lesser of two evils...