Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heinrich Hagenbeck, director of one of the world's greatest zoos, announced that the zoo's elephants will soon replace tractors on German farms, that its camels were being trained to pull wagons. All other Hagenbeck animals, except a pair of each species, were being shipped to Russia. Said Herr Hagenbeck, who gave up his car, took a Shetland pony to work: at the war's end Bolsheviks promised to return the animals or replace them with "rare Russian or Asiatic" specimens...
...great shock of Russia's invasion of Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made...
...thing of spirit, the other of flesh and blood, had served to unify Cana dian opinion. One brought into the fold Canada's dissident minority, the 2,500,000 French Catholics of the Province of Que bec. The news which fired them was the entrance of pagan Russia into Catholic Poland, the leaguing together of Satan's archangels, J. Stalin with A. Hitler...
Across the plains of Poland, getting closer every minute, hurried Russia's new friends, 1,000,000 of them, armed with tanks, planes, propaganda equipment, armored cars, machine guns, and complaining every minute about the atrocities of the Poles who delayed them. On they hurried, capturing cities, blowing up bridges, destroying old military theories, shooting down Polish airplanes, dropping bombs on fleeing ambassadors, machine-gunning refugees, going twice as fast as the Russians did when they invaded Poland...
...Comintern agitation to China and the Far East. Russians decided that they had underestimated Polish national aspirations, and nationalist ambitions everywhere; when Trotsky fell, the defeat was blamed on him, when Tukachevsky was purged, he was called responsible; latest official history of the Communist Party, the Mein Kampf of Russia, holds both guilty of collaborating with Polish landlords and French imperialists...