Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions, Turkey and Iran, the three reached no understanding at all. Stalin was said to have told Byrnes and Bevin that Russia must have all of Turkey that ever belonged to the Tsars. Russia also wanted control of the Dardanelles. As for Azerbaijan, the Russians said that the Red revolt there was "spontaneous and normal," an Iranian matter not a subject for Big Three discussion...
...German style, for he knew nothing of liberty. I am not speaking now of the liberty of the Christian but of political liberty, the liberty of the citizen-this liberty not only left him cold, but its impulses and demands were deeply repugnant to him. . . . Luther hated the peasant revolt which ... if successful, would have given a happier turn to German history, a turn toward liberty. . . . He told the princes that they could now gain the kingdom of heaven by slaughtering the peasant beasts. Luther, the German man of the people, bears a good share of responsibility...
...over, but peace was only the absence of war. Over Europe lay the heavy hand of political turmoil and hunger, the unfathomable problems of reconstruction and reparations. The Middle East was torn with strife, Asia racked by revolt. Even the fortunate Western Hemisphere contained some of the tightest dictatorships in modern history...
...revolt had made rapid progress since it welled up less than two months ago. Most of Azerbaijan (see map) was already in rebel hands. Rebel columns sped along the swampy Caspian littoral to seize the town of Bandar Shah; they headed east toward Iran's sacred city of Meshed...
...Iranian Government complained that the Red Army had blocked its military units sent to put down the revolt. Aloofly, Moscow announced that the Red Army was merely maintaining order while Azerbaijanis demonstrated, as they had a right...