Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Lords. "DieHard" and hard-shell Peers attacked the proposed recognition of the Russian Soviet Government. Lord Emmott said that the British Government's well-meant gesture had received a contemptuous, almost insulting reception from Zinoviev (Chairman of the Third Internationale). He said that a Russian memorandum to a London financial group demanded a loan of ?20,000,000 to ?30, 000,000 as a condition of the return of confiscated property in Russia. Lord Curzon, onetime Foreign Secretary, charged the Soviets with backing Sinn Fein in Ireland, training Indian extremists in Moscow for the special purpose...
Davidov, member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, was sent to Stavropol, Ciscaucasia, to investigate the execution of hundreds of peasants by the Cheka, former secret political police, for resisting tax-collectors. Davidov was just leaving a meeting in the local Soviet, after endorsing the Cheka's policy, when his brains were dashed out by an axe wielded by the son of one of the Cheka's victims...
...reasoning of a Bolshevik is beyond the understanding of healthy people and nations. Even before the war the Russians were eccentric. At one moment the Russian was the polished European, strongely under the influence of French civilization; and a moment later he was the suave, but savage Oriental from Central Asia. It was this constant struggle between the East and West whose outward manifestations made the Russian so difficult to understand...
...CRIMSON reporter asked Mr. Eaton if the Russian people were fundamentally at fault. "No, before the revolution, the Russian were perfectly normal, his work was as good as that of any other European. As soon as Europe understands these people, the political and social conditions in Russia will cause little surprise...
...Monday, Dr. Koo took up the task. But on Tuesday M. Karaghen said that he would consider nothing but unconditional recognition. Meanwhile Russian troops were in Mongolia and were likely to remain there defending Mongolian independence from the Chinese Republic. But it was considered extremely unlikely that the Russians would advance into Manchuria, for that would precipitate Japanese action...