Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia showed the way. The dictatorship of Russia was taken by the Bolsheviki, an armed minority, and the majority were glad. We Italians saw that, and so the dictatorship of Italy was taken by the Fascisti, a minority armed with force, and the majority, the great majority, almost all the people of Italy, were relieved and satisfied. They did not want to govern themselves. They wanted someone to take power and govern for them, and when I stepped up and said I would do it, the people of Italy sighed a sigh work, leaving me and my council to attend...
...Nikolai Lenin, Prime Minister of Soviet Russia, is sinking fast. No hope is entertained for his recovery...
...Premier recovered in so far as he was able to sit up and toy with half a grape fruit. The paralysis has entirely left his throat, leaving his power of speech free. His words were: " So this is Russia...
...main differences between these two Slav States is that Czecho-Slovakia is the enthusiastic exponent of Pan-Slavism, (a doctrine purporting to join up the Slavonic races, which include the Russians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats) while Poland, remembering her fate as a part of Russia, is strongly against a movement that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia...
...advent of Reinhardt, like that of the Moscow Art Theatre, may be considered as one of the most important things which the United States won in the war. Had it not been for the economic impoverishment of Germany and Russia, these artists would have doubtless continued their careers in their native lands...