Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canary interlude began at the close of 1925 when the All-Russian Congress of the Communist Party voted through Joseph Stalin's program for 1926 by 559 to 65, thus signalizing the eclipse of Gregory Zinoviev and his adherents who had violently opposed it. Later M. Zinoviev was dropped from the Political Bureau of the Communist Party: the dictature over which Joseph Stalin now presides, ruling all Russia. Last week M. Zinoviev molted the last feather of his prestige when he was forced to resign as President of the Third International, the Communist world bureau for subversion, espionage...
...Moscow last week under the rigid supervision of the State. Shrewd, Dictator Stalin has long since instructed his subordinates to see that in every Communist parade there shall be funnymen dressed as "President Coolidge," "King George V," "Capital," etc. Amid deep Communist bellymirth "President Coolidge," refuses to "recognize" a "Russian Bear," trips over it and falls sprawling...
...such clowning the Soviet populace is painlessly "educated." But of late there have not been enough clowns at the Government's disposal. Last week, as the "Academy" was opened, it was announced that "Bim" and "Bom" famed and beloved Russian clowns will be employed as instructors...
...Negotiations were begun with President Poincare of France, a hot jingoist for a war to regain Alsace-Lorraine, and plans were laid for a sweeping continental war. Poincare's correspondence of this period shows this. Austria had aims in the Balkans, and as these conflicted with Russian plans, and irritated Serbia, the Balkans were the logical seat...
...Russian designs on Turkey were the spring of all the dissension and the events leading up to war were all of her engineering. The guilt is Russia's and France's and Serbia...