Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British claim is made up principally of a $4,322,000,000 pre-War debt. The interest on this sum alone would probably be more than Soviet Russia could...
...fate of Russia grows ever more tragic. In the unbelievably pleasant days before the war its nobles shared with the French the title of intellectual aristocrats of the world, and its vodka addicted peasants moved native and impressive through a thousand gripping novels. A voluntary bath of blood unfortunately washed the glamor from this old Russian life and left the rest of the world amazed and horrified by tales of the temperamental Red gone politically and economically wild. To the conservative the last twist to Russia's woeful thread of fate is given by Charles Recht's report that Russia...
That "everybody wants to be American" in Russia is not as unanticipated as it first appears. Hitherto the desire has resulted in a flood of Russian emigrants to the United States; and since America has at last shut her doors the impulse must of course seek expression in a less direct way. Even that epitome of Russian cultural development--the Moscow Art Theatre--has evinced a recurrent wash "to be American." And rumor has it that the far-famed Dolly Sisters once rejoiced in a typically Slavic name...
...Russia. "We are for peace and brotherhood. The Red Army and Navy are weapons for the defense of the revolution upon which all other countries are continuously making attacks. The military strength of the capitalistic countries continues to grow and they are using their steel for the purpose of oppression and enslavement, while our opposing steel, for the first time in history, serves the cause of Socialism...
Britain. "If the Labor Government had the courage and valor which are demanded of working-class leaders, it would seize the opportunity to conclude a treaty with Soviet Russia because such a treaty would result in remapping Europe...